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ˈhead-plate
†1. Coach-building: see quot. 1794. Obs.
1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 171 Head Plates..are ornaments made to fix on the upper quarters of a coach or chariot, and on the flats of a chaise head. Ibid. 172 Fig. 21, a fashionable bead-rim head-plate for a crest to go in. 1809Sporting Mag. XXXIII. 276 The crests, in raised silver, will be placed in a garter in the head-plates.
2. Artillery. ‘The plate which covers the breast of the cheeks of a gun-carriage’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).
3. Saddlery. ‘The plate strengthening the point or cantle of a saddle-tree’ (Ibid.).
1874in Tolhausen Technol. Dict.
4. Entom. The chitinous upper surface of the head of a caterpillar or other larva.
1836Shuckard Man. Entomol. §53. 37 Larvæ with a distinct corneous head-plate. |