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screw plate

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noun

  1. a steel plate with threaded holes used for making male screws

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A fourth track on the sole features a small screw plate and seems to refer to face angle position with the words “closed,” “neutral” and “open.”

From Golf Digest

The first is the screw plate shown in Fig.

From Project Gutenberg

This adjusting screw plate has its screw holes slotted to avoid removing the screws when it becomes necessary to remove the plate and cutter for sharpening.

From Project Gutenberg

"Each Man carried two horses," says an early pioneer in describing one of these parties, "traps, a large supply of powder and led, and a small hand vise and bellows, files and screw plate for the purpose of fixing the guns if any of them should get out of fix."

From Project Gutenberg