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back-plate|ˈbækpleɪt|
[f. back n. or a.]
1. A plate of armour for the back.
1656Trapp Exp. Eph. vi. 14 No mention of a back-plate because the Christian soldier should never fly. 1820Scott Monast. xxxv, Armed with cuirass and back-plate. 1859Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. V. 170/1 The Mud Tortoise..has a sacrum..soldered..to the back-plate.
2. A plate placed at or forming the back.
1772Wollaston in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 78 The cock is fastened to the back-plate of the clock itself. |