fishplate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
动词 v.
  1. To connect (rails) together using a fishplate. transitive
    — 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; [...].

词形变化

fishplates plural fishplates present,singular,third-person fishplating participle,present fishplated participle,past fishplated past

词源

词源 1
From fish + plate. See fish (“curved wooden bar used to strengthen a ship's mast”).
词源 2
From fish + plate. See fish (“curved wooden bar used to strengthen a ship's mast”).
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