fishplate
[ fish-pleyt ]
noun
a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
Railroads Now Rare. a joint bar.
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How to use fishplate in a sentence
The fishplate instead of the frog, and the steel rail in place of the good old snakehead!
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British Dictionary definitions for fishplate
fishplate
/ (ˈfɪʃˌpleɪt) /
noun
a flat piece of metal joining one rail, stanchion, or beam to another
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