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fishplate en · NOUN

Etymology

From fish + plate. See fish (“curved wooden bar used to strengthen a ship's mast”).

Meanings

1. A metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track.
   • The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates. 1901, George Gipps, The Fighting in North China (up to the Fall of Tientsin City), Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OL, page 40:

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Synonyms

joint bar

Translations (8)

ca brida (metal bar) · id pelat sambung (metal bar) · fr éclisse (metal bar) · pt eclissa (metal bar) · it ganascia (metal bar) · ca eclissa (metal bar) · ru стыкова́я накла́дка (metal bar) · de Lasche (metal bar)

fishplate en · VERB

Etymology

From fish + plate. See fish (“curved wooden bar used to strengthen a ship's mast”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To connect (rails) together using a fishplate.
   • One section of the line will consist of 60 ft. lengths of rail welded together on site to form fully continuous rails; another will be of 300 ft. lengths, flash butt-welded in Dinsdale Rail Welding Depot and fishplated together on site; [...]. 1959 November, “Talking of Trains: Widening north of York”, in Trains Illustrated, page 518:

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