footplate
Americannoun
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Carpentry. a plate running beneath and supporting a row of studs; mudsill.
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a platform or special floor area on which workers stand to operate a machine.
noun
Etymology
Origin of footplate
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After countless trips to Home Depot looking for the right material to secure her feet to the chair’s footplate during dances, “I finally found the perfect Velcro,” she laughed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
Organisers of the free event said the public will be able to step on to the 97-tonne engine's footplate.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
The footplate of the locomotive, which serves as the connector between the frame and drawbar and needs to withstand massive forces, was littered with cracks and replaced with a stronger version.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2016
When sound strikes the ear drum, the movement is transferred to the footplate of the stapes, which attaches to the oval window and presses into one of the fluid-filled ducts of the cochlea.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The engine was about six inches wider than the tender, and the corner of its footplate would not pass the corner of the newly overturned truck.
From London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Winston Churchill
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