Definition of plate

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Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters..

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Washer :: Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc..
Electrum :: Electrum (n.) German-silver plate. See German silver, under German..
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches..
Ostracion :: Ostracion (n.) A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes..
Cat :: Cat (n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed..
Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness..
Copperplate :: Copperplate (n.) A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A print from such a plate.
Buffet :: Buffet (n.) A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard..
Fish :: Fish (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces..
Toggle :: Toggle (n.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
Blacks :: Blacks (n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press..
Albata :: Albata (n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German..
Poitrel :: Poitrel (a.) The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See Peytrel.
Madreporite :: Madreporite (n.) The madreporic plate of echinoderms.
Intercrural :: Intercrural (a.) Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.
Die :: Die (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc..
Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
Driver :: Driver (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier..
Moire Metallique :: Moire metallique () A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated..
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