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Definition of Fishplates
1. fishplate [n] - See also: fishplate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishplates
Literary usage of Fishplates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The A B C Universal Commercial Electric Telegraphic Code, Specially Adapted by William Clauson-Thue, American Code Company (1901)
"With the necessary fireclay ( tons) fishplates. Fireclay or ganister ( tons) With
the necessary fishplates ( tons) With sufficient fishplates allowing the ..."
2. Report on Observations on Railways, and Other Subjects: Made During a Tour by Henry Coathupe Mais (1884)
"The Midland Railway uses a bull-headed section of steel rail, weighing 85lbs.
per lineal yard, with deep fishplates curved under the lower flange, ..."
3. The Electrical Engineer (1893)
"These experiments wore carried out with rails joined solidly and held by heavy
fishplates, and they demonstrated that for street rails buried in the ground ..."
4. The Railways of Great Britain by Monkswell (1914)
"Though inventors by the score have produced new forms of joint, none has ever
yet satisfied these requirements, and the ordinary fishplates are still almost ..."
5. Proceedings by International Railway Congress Association (1901)
"The pressure exercised by the fishplates becomes reduced to the same extent and
consequently also the wear at those parts of the fishplates which are most ..."
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