Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One engaged in the manufacture of metallic plates, or in their application in the arts and manufactures.
- n. A machine for calendering paper by means of heavy pressure between smooth plates of metal.
- n. One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver: generally in composition: as, silver-plater, gold-plater, nickel-plater.
- n. A horse that competes for a plate.
Wiktionary
- n. someone who plates metal.
- n. someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items
- n. A machine for calendering paper.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver.
- n. A machine for calendering paper.
- n. (Horse Racing) A horse that runs chiefly in plate, esp. selling-plate, races; hence, an inferior race horse.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold)
Examples
“The champion Arab of the world was matched against one of the worst thoroughbreds in training; the English "plater" carried about five stone more than the pride of the East, and won by a quarter of a mile.”
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
“They want jobs but they are not looking for any, they want health care but they are not sick, they want everything handed to them on a silver plater.”
“Her parents, Barry and Sally, are a plater and a cleaner respectively.”
“I like the sound of this, however I still want a single-plater RPG KotOR game.”
“May 29th, 2008 12: 49 pm ET well why wouldnt he have good health he is only 46yr old and has never done a hard labor job in his life running in this campane is probley the most stress he has ever had to go through so why wouldnt he have good health i would have to if i my whole life had had everything handed to me on silver plater sheep”
“If you win it will be because you EARNED IT and not had it handed to you on a silver plater like BO.”
“The house smelled of dust, mothballs, old wood, and the earthy smell of old fashioned plater-coated walls in the cool morning air.”
“Mr. Smith said he isn't sure the plater, which he declined to name, will survive.”
The Wall Street Journal: Small Parts Suppliers Fight to Survive
“That is why Democrats will give them the state on a plater as long as they keep giving them money to stay in power.”
“Of course, he pretty much nailed it on the description of today's beflogged pie plater, so I still have doubts.”
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chained_bear "He would lose touch with the horse world for months, only to surface 'with a string of fast ones' in Juarez, Mexico, then go back into his rabbit hole until a reporter spotted him at a running track in Ottawa with 'a bunch of cheap Canadian platers.'"
—Charles Leerhsen, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 325 Oct 28, 2008