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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rolled steel or iron plate which is bolted transversely between the longitudinal frame-plates of a locomotive, to carry the ends of the cross-head guides which are farthest from the cylinder. The connecting-rods and valve-rods sometimes pass through openings in this plate.
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