different between arrack vs armrack

English

Alternative forms

• arak

Noun

arrack (countable and uncountable, plural arracks)

1. An alcoholic drink distilled from coconut palm flowers in South Asia.
2. An alcoholic drink made from sugarcane and fermented red rice in Indonesia.
3. Alternative spelling of arak (aniseed-flavored alcoholic drink consumed primarily in the Middle East)

Translations

English

Etymology

arm +? rack

Noun

armrack (plural armracks)

1. A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
   • 1803, General Standing Orders for Third, or Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards, Edinburgh: R. Allan, Instructions for the Guard, Article 16, pp. 162-163,^[1]

     The Carbines must be regularly place in the arm rack, according to each man’s number in the Guard.

   • 1890, Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Was” in Littel’s Living Age, Volume 185, No. 2394, 17 May, 1890, p. 443,^[2]

     [The carbines] disappeared mysteriously from locked arm-racks, and in the hot weather when all the barrack doors and windows were opened they vanished like puffs of their own smoke.

   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Chapter 40, p. 403,^[3]

     It was a long time since Tunku Allang had had ammunition for the score or so of old muskets rusting in their arm-racks in the audience-hall.