wall plate
Also called raising plate. Building Trades. a horizontal member built into or laid along the top of a wall to support and distribute the pressure from joists, rafters, etc.
Machinery. a vertical metal plate secured against a wall, as to attach a bracket.
Mining. one of the longer members of a set.: Compare end plate.
Origin of wall plate
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How to use wall plate in a sentence
The roof is an open one of massive wooden rafters, with the beams running across at the level of the wall plates.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory | Thomas PerkinsThat was managed by four forked saplings put into the ground, and other straight saplings resting as wall-plates in the forks.
Missing Friends | Thorvald WeitemeyerThe bearings of the joists on the wall also rest on wall plates, so as to get a level bed, and are sometimes notched over them.
The wall-plates are of large half-stuff, with the flat side above.
Rustic Carpentry | Paul N. HasluckBut the gun went off, the bullet ricocheting off the wall-plates with a scream.
The Hell Ship | Raymond Alfred Palmer
British Dictionary definitions for wall plate
a horizontal timber member placed along the top of a wall to support the ends of joists, rafters, etc, and distribute the load
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