hatrack

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Dried and trimmed, the shrub’s multipronged branches made it useful — for driving farm animals, for example; one botanical history database suggested they also made good hatracks.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2020

This included three sofas, a dozen overstuffed chairs, 100 straight chairs, tents, doormats, 50 small tables complete with luncheon service, and two Victorian hatracks.

From Time Magazine Archive

These specimens of wood were sometimes made up into hatracks, chairs, canes, or panels for doors, and are seen in odd corners of these rambling rooms.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Hubbard, Elbert

And I’ve got to comb over my herd, and get rid of the boarders and hatracks, and acquire a blooded bull for Alabama Ranch, to improve the strain.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.