fishplate
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fishplate
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From fish + plate. See fish (“curved wooden bar used to strengthen a ship's mast”).
noun fishplates
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A metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track.
The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.
Similar: joint bar
verb fishplates · fishplating · fishplated
- 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; [...].
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noun metal bar
| Português | eclissa |
|---|---|
| Français | éclisse |
| Deutsch | Lasche |
| Italiano | ganascia |
| Русский | стыкова́я накла́дка stykovája nakládka |
Talk about this word "fishplate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fishplate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. fishplate. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fishplate "fishplate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fishplate.Cite this
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title = {fishplate},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
