picture rod
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]picture rod (plural picture rods)
- A picture rail
- 1899, E. W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman, Nine Points of the Law:
- "If you take it like that," he chuckled, "how will old Johnson take it? Go out and hang himself to his own picture-rods, I hope!"
References
[edit]- “picture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.