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Definition of Plate iron
1. Noun. A plate of iron.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plate Iron
Literary usage of Plate iron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1797)
"The piers, formed of hollow bodies of Iron, are attached to the bed of the river,
by hollow plates, nailed to the ground by piles of plate iron, grooved, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The brackets are made of plate iron, riveted to a frame of angle iron. The axle
carries two seats for gunners ; into the trail are fitted the elevating ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1860)
"r plate, in the city 2,MK) " " in towns near 2J,0"0 The production of sheet and
plate iron is lar¡*elv increasing over that of 1850-7, in the current year. ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1860)
"... are particularly distinguished for steel rolling, in part from English bar
iron, ind for the finer grades of sheet and plate iron. ..."
5. The Architect's and Builder's Pocket-book: A Handbook for Architects by Frank Eugene Kidder (1886)
"RIVETED PLATE-IRON GIRDERS. WHENEVER the load upon a girder or the span is too
great to tuit of using an iron beam, and the use of a trussed wooden 'der is ..."
6. Directory of Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada by American Iron and Steel Association, American Iron and Steel Institute (1888)
"... plate iron (comprising boiler, tank, pipe, and flue iron) and muck bar ; annual
capacity, 9000 net tons of muck bar and 11000 tons of plate iron. ..."
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