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ˈwall-plate
Also 4–6 wal-, 5 walle-, 6 wail-, wayl-.
[f. wall n.1 + plate n. 7.]
1. Building. A timber placed horizontally on or in a wall, to form a support for joists or rafters.
1394Acc. Manor of the Savoy in Archæologia XXIV. 307 Et in stipendio ij sarratorum sarrantium meremium pro walplates et bemes, et plauncheborde et plegges. 1505–6Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 103 Imposicionem unius wail⁓plate. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xxix. 45 If the Plane of the Cieling of the Wall is interrupted, and made irregular by Beams, Wall-plates, Cornishes, [etc.]. 1782Phil. Trans. LXXII. 368 Just beneath the abovementioned hole at the end of the angle-tie, is the extremity of the wallplate which lies upon the eastern wall of the east flank. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §380 The wooden caps always give, or seem to give, a more secure bearing for the wall-plate or architrave. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms i, He..cut every post and wallplate and rafter himself.
2. Mining. (See quots.)
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Wall-plates, Corn. The two side-pieces of a timber frame in a shaft, parallel to the strike of the lode when the shaft is sunk on the lode. The other two pieces are the end-pieces. 1886J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 70 Wall-plate, vertical strips of wood supporting the ends of the buntons in a wood-lined shaft.
Hence wall-plating, wall plates collectively.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1804 The wall-plating and bond to be dovetailed and halved at their angles. |