Word.ws English Dictionary

throat plate

throat plate is the alternative form of throatplate.

Meaning of throatplate

Noun

throatplate (plural throatplates)

  1. A plate forming the lower front of the outer firebox of a locomotive boiler, below the barrel.
    • The loco had been withdrawn from service in 1996, when cracks had been found in the throatplates of its boiler, and its power bogies had been overhauled and placed under Earl of Merioneth.2017, Peter Johnson, Festiniog Railway. Volume 2: From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014

Forms of throat plate

pluralthroat plates

Questions about throat plate

What is throat plate the alternative form of?
Throat plate is the alternative form of throatplate.

Words near throat plate in the dictionary

  1. throat lozenges
  2. throat microphone
  3. throat microphones
  4. throat paint
  5. throat paints
  6. throat plate
  7. throat strap
  8. throat straps
  9. throat sweet
  10. throat sweetbread
  11. throat sweetbreads

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: throat plate (page history and authors); throatplate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “throat plate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/throat_plate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.