Bedplates

Word BEDPLATES
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Definitions and meanings of "Bedplates"

What do we mean by bedplates?

The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed.

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The word "bedplates" in example sentences

But what if they had said, We are not going to spoil our fine churches by sticking props all around them, and had resorted to concealed bedplates and invisible rods of iron, would their structures have been better or nobler or more enduring? ❋ Various (N/A)

Chiefly in consequence of the high value of the ground, vertical engines were adopted at the new station; the proximity to the river made the foundations somewhat costly, and the risk of occasional floods rendered it desirable to set the level of the engine bedplates ❋ Various (N/A)

To these bedplates are affixed the standards by means of bolts and keys. ❋ Various (N/A)

Great saving in weight can be effected by careful design and judicious selection and adaptation of materials, also by the substitution of trussed framing and a proper mode of securing the engine to the structure of the vessel, as worked out in H.M.S. Nelson, by Mr.A. C. Kirk, of Glasgow, and in the beautifully designed engines by Mr. Thornycroft, in place of the massive cast-iron bedplates and columns of the ordinary engines of commerce. ❋ Various (N/A)

She was probably full of smells; and Dennison was ready to wager that in a moderate sea her rivets and bedplates whined, and that the pump never rested. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

The carpenter returned after about five minutes 'absence, and reported that already there was more than ten feet of water in the fore end of the ship, while in the engine-room it was almost up to the bedplates, and that consequently the stokers were drawing the furnaces as quickly as they could in order to avert an explosion. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

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