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

Words nearby wall plate

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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.
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It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
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It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of Wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.
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Marvin hops over the edge of his retaining wall, which he built.
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He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
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Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.
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He leant against the wall of his refuge, notwithstanding this boast, and licked the ice to moisten his parched lips.
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A little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.
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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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