bedplate

American  

[bed-pleyt] / ˈbɛdˌpleɪt /

noun

1. a plate, platform, or frame supporting the lighter parts of a machine.

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bedplate British  

/ ˈbɛdˌpleɪt /

noun

1. a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached

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Etymology

Origin of bedplate

First recorded in 1840–50; bed + plate ¹

Example Sentences

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bedplate

Serving as the machine’s bedplate, the arm was shaped to accommodate the stitching of all the parts of the shoe.

From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Grace Rogers Cooper

Make a bold scratch across the bedplate to show where the centre line of the shaft should be, and another along the bed for the piston-rod centre line.

From Things To Make by Archibald Williams

Here the solid metal gave way to solder and he picked at this until he discovered that a piece of sheet metal had been soldered at the edges and fastened to the bedplate.

From The Ethical Engineer by Harry Harrison

Around the bedplate are located the oil-cooling coils, the oil strainer, the oil reservoir and the oil pipings to the bearing.

From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins

The same method can be applied to individual turbines pumping their own oil from a tank in the bedplate; the return oil, as previously described, being temporarily prevented from running back to the supply.

From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins