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
Example Sentences
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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
"I did a lot of trips on the footplate and shovelled a lot of coal. "There was a lot of interest, even back then.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2016
It was unclear whether the workers knew the footplate was insecure, though they are seen standing to the side of the metal panel, near the handrail of the escalator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2015
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 stapes has a large footplate, and its stylus articulates with the quadrate, but no true operculum or opercularis has been described in the Apoda.
From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
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