picture rod

noun

A picture rail

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Meanings

nounpicture rod (plural picture rods)

plural picture rods

  1. A picture rail

    "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!"

    1899, E. W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman, Nine Points of the Law

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
picture rail
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APA

picture rod. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/picture%20rod

MLA

“picture rod.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/picture%20rod. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “picture rod,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/picture%20rod.

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