English Dictionary

footplate

noun

(rail transport) The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.

The footplate of the machine is made of steel.

意味（1）

(rail transport) The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.

All the same, nearly eight hours on the footplate covering a distance of 320 miles, with an ambient temperature of up to 103° for much of the time, proved an ordeal which I would not lightly undertake again.

意味（2）

The engineer's cab in any kind of train.

Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.

意味（3）

(anatomy) The flat portion at the base of the stapes; pedicel.

The footplate of the stapes develops and ossifies in conjunction with the otic capsule and thus takes its origin from the otic placode in the embryo.

意味（4）

The part of a roller skate that attaches to the boot.

意味（5）

(construction) A timber in a wood frame that distributes a concentrated load.

意味（6）

(auto parts) A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.