Armrack

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

[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.

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.