Definition of Drawplate

1. n. A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

Definition of Drawplate

1. Noun. A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated. ¹

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Definition of Drawplate

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawplate

drawls
drawly
drawmaster
drawmasters
drawn
drawn-out
drawn and quartered
drawn out
drawne
drawnet
drawnets
drawnness
drawnwork
drawnworks
drawplate (current term)
drawplates
drawrod
drawrods
draws
draws out
drawshave
drawshaves
drawsheet
drawsheets
drawspring
drawsprings
drawstring
drawstring bag
drawstrings

Literary usage of Drawplate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency by Sir James MacNabb Campbell, Reginald Edward Enthoven (1885)
"The point is pushed through the largest hole in the drawplate which is set against ... When it shows through the drawplate the point is caught in a pair of ..."

2. Conductors for Electrical Distribution: Their Materials and Manufacture, the by Frederic Auten Combs Perrine (1902)
"When the terminal wire block is started in motion and the wire drawn through the last drawplate the end on the drum is tightened, which draws it through the ..."

3. Conductors for Electrical Distribution: Their Materials and Manufacture, the by Frederic Auten Combs Perrine (1903)
"When the terminal wire block is started in motion and the wire drawn through the last drawplate the end on the drum is tightened, which draws it through the ..."

4. The Chemistry of Breadmaking by James Grant (1912)
"Within the last three years, drawplate ovens with half-inch thick tiles have ... to render the drawplate suitable for the baking of buns and other smalls. ..."

5. Iron and Steel: A Treatise on the Smelting, Refining, and Mechanical by Erik Oberg, Franklin Day Jones (1918)
"It consists mainly of a table T to which is fastened a bracket B, which holds the d1e or drawplate, and a power-driven vertical drum or block D on which, ..."

6. Railway Signaling by N.Y. School of Railway Signaling (Utica, Utica (N.Y.) School of Railway Signaling (1910)
"For the smaller sizes of wire the drawplate is made of steel instead of chilled iron. 30. In the process of drawing the wire is pulled FiK' a through the ..."

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