English Explanatory Dictionary

wall plate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A piece of timber laid horizontally in or on a wall as a support for a girder, rafter, or joist.
  2. A plate mounted to a wall as a housing.

Word forms

wall plate wall plates

Etymology

From Middle English wall plate, walplate, equivalent to wall + plate.

Synonyms

raising piece reason
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on W Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary