Definition of Bedplate

1. a frame support [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedplate

bedmakers
bedmate
bedmates
bednet
bednets
bedo
bedole
bedone
bedotted
bedoubt
bedouin
bedouins
bedoven
bedpan
bedpans
bedplate (current term)
bedplates
bedpost
bedposts
bedquilt
bedquilts
bedrabble
bedrabbled
bedrabbles
bedrabbling
bedraggle
bedraggled
bedraggles
bedraggling
bedrail

Literary usage of Bedplate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pattern Making: A Practical Treatise Embracing the Main Types of Engineering by Joseph Gregory Horner (1885)
"Buckling of Castings.—Theory at Fault. THERE is no limit to the forms which bedplates may assume. But however their details may vary, a bedplate is a bed- ..."

2. Engineering of Power Plants by Robert Heywood Fernald, George Alexander Orrok (1916)
"This leaves a joint between the bedplate and the foundation, which varies ... A clay dam is now built around the bedplate and cement grout, usually neat or ..."

3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"bedplate AND BEARINGS 84. In Fig. 26 the details of the bedplate and bearings are shown. The bedplate is cast in one piece, with the two pedestals, ..."

4. American Negligence Reports, Current Series Cited Am. Neg. Rep.: All the by United States (1903)
"On the day of the accident the defendant's foreman ordered the plaintiff and two other employees to move a bedplate of iron weighing about 500 pounds, ..."

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