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Definition of Plate rail
1. Noun. Rail or narrow shelf fixed to a wall to display plates.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plate Rail
Literary usage of Plate rail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1838)
"plate rail. We have previously stated, that cast iron was first adopted for rails
about the year 176?; Figs. 5, 6, and 7, Plate I., shew the form of these ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1825)
"The following experiments were made to ascertain the resistance of carriages
moved along the plate-rail, with the same dynamometer used in the previous ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1831)
"This " plate rail" as it is called, was supported by wooden sleepers stretched
across the breadth of the rail-road, or by short square ones to which the ..."
4. The Model Locomotive Engineer, Fireman, and Engine-boy: Comprising a by Michael Reynolds (1896)
"In the year There were so plate-rail, that ingenious men set their minds to work
to scheme something else. 1801, the rail was much improved, many defects ..."
5. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Robert Jameson, Wernerian Natural History Society (1826)
"Mr Wood * determines, from experiment, the relative resistance on the plate-rail
and the edge-rail to be as 73: 63 ; and if, as is probable, ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"This " plate rail" as it is called, was supported by wooden sleepers stretched
across the breadth of the rail-road, or by short square ones to which the ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1838)
"plate rail. We have previously stated, that cast iron was first adopted for rails
about the year 176?; Figs. 5, 6, and 7, Plate I., shew the form of these ..."
8. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1825)
"The following experiments were made to ascertain the resistance of carriages
moved along the plate-rail, with the same dynamometer used in the previous ..."
9. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1831)
"This " plate rail" as it is called, was supported by wooden sleepers stretched
across the breadth of the rail-road, or by short square ones to which the ..."
10. The Model Locomotive Engineer, Fireman, and Engine-boy: Comprising a by Michael Reynolds (1896)
"In the year There were so plate-rail, that ingenious men set their minds to work
to scheme something else. 1801, the rail was much improved, many defects ..."
11. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Robert Jameson, Wernerian Natural History Society (1826)
"Mr Wood * determines, from experiment, the relative resistance on the plate-rail
and the edge-rail to be as 73: 63 ; and if, as is probable, ..."
12. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"This " plate rail" as it is called, was supported by wooden sleepers stretched
across the breadth of the rail-road, or by short square ones to which the ..."
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