Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metal or wooden plate bolted to the sides of two abutting rails or beams, used especially in the laying of railroad track.
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- noun rail transport A metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two
rails to join them together in atrack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A fishplate is a metal or wooden plate bolted to the sides of two abutting rails.
rediff.com 2010
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Another distributed splice bars, and a third the bolts and nuts for the fishplate.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Another distributed splice bars, and a third the bolts and nuts for the fishplate.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Most of the rail was old chair iron, short, and consequently more time was used in making the change than would have been required had our work been on fishplate rail.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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From one of the holes for the fishplate bolts there dangled a rotten cord, and on the sand beneath this improvised yet apparently effective gallows lay a human skull and bones, quite white and beautifully polished by the action of sun and wind.
The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919
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The fishplate instead of the frog, and the steel rail in place of the good old snakehead!
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Not a bolt nor a fishplate had been forgotten, and moreover John Castellan's operations from the air had reduced the destruction to a minimum, and the consequence was that twelve hours after the Kaiser had landed at Dover he found himself in his headquarters at Canterbury, whence the British garrison had been forced to retire after heavy fighting along the lines of wooded hills behind
The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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February 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - A major train accident was averted in West Bengal Sunday when a railway worker spotted a crack in a rail track fishplate and stopped a train.
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ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
Who knew?
March 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word fishplate
I've known since the age of about five.
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
I adore you.
March 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word fishplate
Hurrah!
Why not come trainspotting with me some time?
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
Absolutely! Shall we meet at your cabin in ████████?
March 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word fishplate
Yes, and be sure to bring plenty of ██████.
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
Awesome. I bet we could get reesetee to come along and play the ████████.
March 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word fishplate
It seems perverse to be redacting harmless words like ██████ and ████████, while trainspotting remains there for all to see.
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
To be fair, ████████ in the wrong hands could be pretty dangerous. But I understand.
March 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word fishplate
Have you potted many trains, ruzuzu?
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
Just one. I was in high school, it was late at night, and all my friends were doing it.
March 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word fishplate
I suppose you were deaf to the anguished cries of the tiny little passengers? And the miniature guard, gibbering in his caboose.
March 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word fishplate
Trainspotting really is a filthy habit. A habit with many innocent victims.
By the way, I'm sure reesetee will be delighted to play his ████████ for us.
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
I know... but I'm clean now.
March 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word fishplate
As clean as a brand new fishplate?
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
Yes. I am as clean as a brand new fishplate.
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
As clean as a train whistle.
March 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
Squeaky.
March 28, 2011
reesetee commented on the word fishplate
*plays ████████ in celebration of ruzuzu's squeaky cleanness*
April 4, 2011
oroboros commented on the word fishplate
Criminy! Nobody's even bothered to list fishplate! I'm not gonna either...*tests ruzuzu's squeak, just to make sure*
April 4, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word fishplate
Squeak!
April 4, 2011