wall plate

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noun

Also called raising plate. Building Trades. a horizontal member built into or laid along the top of a wall to support and distribute the pressure from joists, rafters, etc.

Machinery. a vertical metal plate secured against a wall, as to attach a bracket.

Mining. one of the longer members of a set.Compare end plate.

switch plate.

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Origin of wall plate

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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How to use wall plate in a sentence

Depending on how your home is laid out, you may also have to deal with what Clayton calls “beauty marks” on the wall—small holes about the size of a single or double wall plate they need to pull wires down.
Ethernet and a mesh network will permanently solve your WiFi issues|Whitson Gordon|October 16, 2020|Popular-Science
Originally determined by the slat of wood which strengthened the wall-plate at the point of its perforation by the trunnels.
History of Ancient Art|Franz von Reber
The continuous fillet which crowns the epistyle, representative of the wall-plate of the original timbered Doric construction.
History of Ancient Art|Franz von Reber
Then went to a brass wall plate beside the outer door, inserted the key, and turned.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith

Catherine stirred and moaned, and I stopped long enough to take the key out of the wall plate.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith
Roof′let, a small roof or covering; Roof′-plate, a wall-plate which receives the lower ends of the rafters of a roof.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various

British Dictionary definitions for wall plate

wall plate

noun

a horizontal timber member placed along the top of a wall to support the ends of joists, rafters, etc, and distribute the load

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