Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foot-plate; a plate, usually of iron or steel but sometimes built up of boards, used as a floor around engines and boilers.
- noun A massive plate usually of cast iron, with slots on its upper face, forming part of the floor of a machine-shop, so that work can be bolted to it.
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Examples
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We offer a custom straddle-guard floor-plate and trigger guard assembly that is a standard feature on our Classic rifles.
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A Williams steel floor-plate and trigger bow is re-machined and cosmetically detailed before installation.
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Rubenstein stared at the magazines a moment, Rourke saying, "Look on the bottom-on the floor-plate."
The Nightmare Begins Ahern, Jerry 1981
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The partial outline of a blaster was marked in grease on the floor-plate.
The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964
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At the same time the recall wave exerted an attractive force that drew the atoms back to a central point in the laboratory, where they were re-materialized upon the same floor-plate from which they had originally been sent.
Devil Crystals of Arret Hal K. Wells
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He was standing upon the floor-plate in the center of the area bounded by the banked green tubes, and beside him stood Joan, sobbing with relief at their last-minute rescue from the Devil
Devil Crystals of Arret Hal K. Wells
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Tensely the two men stared at the metal floor-plate in the center of the area bounded by the flaming green tubes.
Devil Crystals of Arret Hal K. Wells
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Five minutes later Powell stood ready and waiting upon the floor-plate in the focus of the big atomic projector, with the central lens of the apparatus levelled down upon him like a huge searchlight.
Devil Crystals of Arret Hal K. Wells
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Stripping the dark goggles from their eyes, the two men hurried over for a closer view of the thing that rested quiescent and apparently lifeless there on the metal floor-plate.
Devil Crystals of Arret Hal K. Wells
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As he closed the switch on this panel, three banks of tubes set in triangular form around the floor-plate upon which Joan had stood glowed a brilliant and blinding green.
Devil Crystals of Arret Hal K. Wells
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