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▪ I. plater|ˈpleɪtə(r)|
[f. plate v. and n. + -er1.]
1. One who coats or plates articles with a film of metal, usually of silver or gold; often in Comb., as electro-plater, tin-plater.
1777Birmingham Directory 5 Bewhouse, Thomas, Plater. 1798W. Hutton Autobiog. App. E. 132 A buckle-plater sued O and M for a guinea. 1830N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 404, I went to the platers, where every species of silver and plated ware is produced. 1884Brit. Alm. & Comp. 123 A working-man..employed as a silver plater.
2. A man engaged in the manufacture or application of metal plates, esp. in iron shipbuilding.
1864Daily Tel. 11 Aug., Upon Shoeburyness..the gunners and the armour-platers have pitched their camp. 1869E. J. Reed Shipbuild. x. 194 The fitting, marking, and fixing of the outside plating are performed by a party of workmen known as platers. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Platers, skilled mechanics..who mark, shear, roll, flange, bend, shape, punch.., set, fit, and fix in place..the steel plates..&c., for the outside and inside and hull of a ship, or for boilers and bridges.
3. Horse-racing. A horse that competes chiefly in plate or prize races (see plate n. 18); an inferior race-horse. Also fig.
1859Lever Davenport Dunn xxxi. 261 You might have guessed, Master Grog, that she never could be a ‘Plater’. 1864Admiral Rous in Edin. Rev. July 124 The form of the best race-horse in 1750 is inferior to those of the commonest plater of the present day. 1886Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 327/2 A veteran selling-plater who has passed through some ten or a dozen stables.
4. A machine for calendering paper: see quot.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Plater, a paper calendering machine... The paper is packed between smooth plates of zinc or copper, and passed between the rolls back and forth till the desired finish is obtained.
▪ II. plater
obs. form of platter. |