Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In steam- or gas-fitting, a screw-plate; a screw-cutting die.
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Examples
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To pass through the narrow orifice made in the skin, the fore-part of the body contracts and lengthens out, as though drawn through a die-plate.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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It should be dry enough to show no undue moisture on its surface as it comes out of the die-plate, and sufficiently moist not to be crumbled in passing the edge of the mould.
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90° C. to a plastic mass, which is moulded into blocks and compacted by a pressure of ½ to 2 tons per sq.in. in a machine with a rotating die-plate somewhat like that used in making semi-plastic clay bricks.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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a rod or bar, having cog-teeth, with a cog-wheel, which is moved by horse or hand power, and drives the piston forward with steadiness, forcing the clay through the openings in the die-plate.
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