Fromarm +‎rack.

armrack (pluralarmracks)

1. Aframe, generallyvertical, for holdingsmall 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]

     TheCarbines must be regularly place in thearm rack, according to each man’s number in the Guard.

   • 1890 May 17,Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Was”, inLittel’s Living Age, volume185, number2394, page443:

     [Thecarbines] disappeared mysteriously from lockedarm-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, chapter 40, inLord Jim‎^[2], Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page403:

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

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