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footplating

footplating is the present participle and gerund of footplate.

Meaning of footplate

Verb

footplate (third-person singular simple present footplates, present participle footplating, simple past and past participle footplated)

  1. To travel (or work) on the footplate of a locomotive.
    • Hard work is required from men and machines as I was to experience later when footplating Lambton No 5 on five bogies battling its way up Newtondale.1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 415

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Questions about footplating

What is footplating the present participle and gerund of?
Footplating is the present participle and gerund of footplate.

Words near footplating in the dictionary

  1. footplate man
  2. footplate men
  3. footplateman
  4. footplatemen
  5. footplates
  6. footplating
  7. footplay
  8. footplough
  9. footploughs
  10. footplow
  11. footplows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footplating (page history and authors); footplate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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