Footplate

Quick meaning: Footplate is a noun meaning The engineer's cab in any kind of train.

Meaning

The engineer's cab in any kind of train.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy) The flat portion at the base of the stapes; pedicel.
2. The part of a roller skate that attaches to the boot.
3. (construction) A timber in a wood frame that distributes a concentrated load.
4. (automotive) A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.
5. (rail transport) To travel (or work) on the footplate of a locomotive.
6. (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.

Example Sentences

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

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.

Hard work is required from men and machines as I was to experience later when footplating Lambton No 5 on five bogies battling its way up Newtondale.

This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.

Word Forms

• footplates
• footplating
• footplated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include otosclerotic, stapes, baseplate, throatplate, floorplate, soleplate.

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