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fishplating

fishplating is the present participle and gerund of fishplate.

Meaning of fishplate

Verb

fishplate (third-person singular simple present fishplates, present participle fishplating, simple past and past participle fishplated)

  1. (transitive) To connect (rails) together using a fishplate.
    • One section of the line will consist of 60 ft. lengths of rail welded together on site to form fully continuous rails; another will be of 300 ft. lengths, flash butt-welded in Dinsdale Rail Welding Depot and fishplated together on site; [...].1959 November, “Talking of Trains: Widening north of York”, in Trains Illustrated, page 518

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Questions about fishplating

What is fishplating the present participle and gerund of?
Fishplating is the present participle and gerund of fishplate.

Words near fishplating in the dictionary

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

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