drawplate
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The apprentice held another, greasing it for the drawplate.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Ranofer picked up the ingot, which was now cool enough to handle, and carried it to the nearby workbench on which the drawplate stood.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
He had poured that slim little ingot, now lying yonder in the courtyard beside the drawplate, from just such sweepings as this.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
"We have all the necessary materials for making a battery, and the most difficult thing will be to stretch the wires, but by means of a drawplate I think we shall manage it."
From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules
Harding commenced by manufacturing a drawplate, that is to say, a plate of steel, pierced with conical holes of different sizes, which would successively bring the wire to the wished-for tenacity.
From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules
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