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fishplates

fishplates is the plural of fishplate.

Meaning of fishplate

Noun

fishplate (plural fishplates)

  1. A metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track.
    • The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.1901, George Gipps, The Fighting in North China (up to the Fall of Tientsin City), Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OL, page 40
    Synonyms:
    joint bar

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Questions about fishplates

What is fishplates the plural of?
Fishplates is the plural of fishplate.

Words near fishplates in the dictionary

  1. fishpastes
  2. fishplant
  3. fishplants
  4. fishplate
  5. fishplated
  6. fishplates
  7. fishplating
  8. fishpole
  9. fishpoles
  10. fishpond
  11. fishponds

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