gas-bracket

See also: gas bracket

English

Noun

gas-bracket (plural gas-brackets)

1. Alternative form of gas bracket.
   • 1880 February 20, The Scottish Law Reporter: Containing Reports by G. R. Gillespie, B.A. (Editor), H. J. E. Fraser, M.A., David Dundas, B.A., J. H. Forbes, B.A., and J. D. Sym, M.A., Advocates, of Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary, Court of Teinds, and House of Lords, volume XVII, Edinburgh: John Baxter & Son, […], page 438, column 2:

     “[…] and further, to ordain the respondent to restore to the said mansion-house and offices the following articles which may already have been removed from the said mansion-house or others, viz. dining-room and lobby lustres, dining-room wall gas-brackets, the two brackets in the boudoir, the drawing-room grate, and two stone lions, the ferns and other plants which were in the vineries at the time of the sale,” &c.

   • 1880 July 1, “Location of Gas Lights”, in The Plumber & Sanitary Engineer, volume 3, number 15, New York, N.Y., page 298, column 1:

     Wall gas-brackets should never be allowed to swing, for if perfectly safe at a distance of one foot from woodwork, the bracket is often turned toward the wall, and consequently all precaution as to distance is useless.

   • 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Inside the House”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 43:

     These pieces of card of the exact size of bedsteads, bureaus, buffets, etc., can be moved about on the architect’s floor-plan of each room to determine the location of windows, doors, gas-brackets, etc.

   • 1949, John Gloag, The Englishman’s Castle: A History of Houses, Large and Small, in Town and Country, from A. D. 100 to the Present Day, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, page 151:

     Wall gas-brackets were of the same style as the pendant gaseliers.