Definition of Drawplates

1. Noun. (plural of drawplate) ¹

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Definition of Drawplates

1. drawplate [n] - See also: drawplate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawplates

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

Literary usage of Drawplates

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

1. The Manufacture of Iron, in All Its Various Branches: Including a by Frederick Overman (1854)
"Wrought iron plates, furnished with such a coating of steel, are used as drawplates for wire. The holes for the wire are punched when it is warm, for, ..."

2. The Manufacture of Iron, in All Its Various Branches by Frederick Overman (1850)
"Wrought iron plates, furnished with such a coating of steel, are used as drawplates for wire. The holes for the wire are punched when it is warm, for, ..."

3. Conductors for Electrical Distribution: Their Materials and Manufacture, the by Frederic Auten Combs Perrine (1902)
"In this manner the wire can be drawn through as many as twenty drawplates at one time. As will readily be seen, little or no slip will take place on the ..."

4. Conductors for Electrical Distribution: Their Materials and Manufacture, the by Frederic Auten Combs Perrine (1903)
"The wire passes from a reel free to turn, through the first of a series of drawplates arranged on a bar parallel to the axis of the drum ; from this it is ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"11, § 1, Schedule C, par. 135, 30 Stat. 161, for "plates and steel in all forms and shapes." Morris v. United States, 140 Fed. 774. drawplates and ..."

6. Jewellery by Cyril Davenport (1905)
"JEWELLERY drawplates of agate have been found among very ancient ruins, but square-section wire can be easily cut off the edge of a sheet of metal, ..."

7. A Treatise on the Measurement of Electrical Resistance by William Arthur Price (1894)
"... whilst the outside remains annealed from the heat evolved by its passage through the holes of the drawplates: after a time however the inside, ..."

8. Iron and Steel: A Treatise on the Smelting, Refining, and Mechanical by Erik Oberg, Franklin Day Jones (1918)
"... and the wire is, therefore, annealed at frequent intervals before it is reduced to a smaller size by a subsequent drawing operation. drawplates. ..."

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