back-platen.
/ˈbakpleɪt/ 1. A plate of armour for the back.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > back-plate
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle > parts of
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1656 J. Trapp Comm. Eph. vi. 14 No mention of a back-plate because the Christian soldier should never fly.
1820 W. Scott Monastery III. x. 254 Armed with cuirass and back-plate.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 170/1 The Mud Tortoise..has a sacrum..soldered..to the back-plate.
2. A plate placed at or forming the back.
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the world > space > relative position > position at the back > [noun] > that which forms the back of anything > specific
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1772 F. Wollaston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 78 The cock is fastened to the back-plate of the clock itself.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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