channel plate

noun

An iron plate or link fastened under a channel, to which a mast is secured.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounchannel plate (plural channel plates)

plural channel plates

  1. historicalnauticalAn iron plate or link fastened under a channel, to which a mast is secured.First known use 19th c.

    “[W]e left the brig at sundown, lying with her channel plates nearly under water.”

    1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 250
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