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tubeplates

tubeplates is the plural of tubeplate.

Meaning of tubeplate

Noun

tubeplate (plural tubeplates)

  1. A plate across the barrel of a boiler, containing many small holes to receive the firetubes.
    • Such soot blowers often have movable jets so that the jet can be directed towards different parts of the tubeplate in turn.1944 May and June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194

Questions about tubeplates

What is tubeplates the plural of?
Tubeplates is the plural of tubeplate.

Words near tubeplates in the dictionary

  1. tubemakers
  2. tubemaking
  3. tubenose
  4. tubenoses
  5. tubeplate
  6. tubeplates
  7. tuber
  8. tuber cinerea
  9. tuber cinereum
  10. tuber fleeceflower
  11. tuber fleeceflowers

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