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Definition of Fishplate
1. Noun. Metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams.
Definition of Fishplate
1. Noun. (context: rail transport) A metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fishplate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishplate
Literary usage of Fishplate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Electric Railway Engineering by Horace Field Parshall, Henry Metcalf Hobart (1907)
"TYPE OF BOND, PROTECTED BY fishplate. in Fig. 237, and the steel chann« pin is
shown at its centre ... BOND OUTSIDE fishplate. Fig. 241. RAIL BONDING PRESS. ..."
2. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"796, are "plain fishplate joints," the side plates being of wood in g and of
metal in /i. ... For tension, however, the fishplate joint is more efficient. ..."
3. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1901)
"tional cost over the ordinary fishplate joint, but the excess will at most be
... Careful investigation shows that with fishplate joints the average wear is ..."
4. Transactions (1892)
"They may have noticed also in some cases that the fishplate had curved contact
surfaces difficult to fit, the result of this and the flat angle caused the ..."
5. The Electrical Engineer (1898)
"The latter, having their joints more or less exposed, are best bonded underneath
the fishplate by ono or other of the flat copper types with copper heads ..."
6. Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society by Liverpool Engineering Society, Wilfrid S. Boult, Edward H. Allies, Robert L. Tapscott, Thomas L. Miller, John Henry Tudsbery Tudsbery, R. C. F. Annett (1899)
"This consists of a plastic metallic composition which makes contact between the
rail and the fishplate, and an elastic cork case to hold the plastic ..."
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