| 单词 | catch plate |
| 释义 | > as lemmascatch plate catch plate n. †(a) (in a coach window blind, which slides in the manner of a shutter down the grooves of a frame) a plate fitted to the bottom lath, perhaps one which contains or retains a catch to hold the blind in place (obsolete rare); (b) (in a colliery lift) one of a pair of metal plates which move towards each other to catch the safety hook of the winding rope or chain if the hook is disengaged from its shackle as a result of overwinding (now chiefly historical). ΚΠ 1767 Public Advertiser 14 Sept. Laycock Inventor, engraved on the Catch-plate. 1887 Daily News 11 Jan. 2/7 The force with which the cage was hurled into the head gear was so great that the bolts which fasten the catch-plate to the girders were torn away. 1929 Colliery Guardian 1 Feb. 456/1 The engine driver..allowed the ascending cage to be drawn up into the headgear, where it was held by the Humble hook in the catch-plate. 1989 Trans. Mining, Geol. & Metall. Inst. India No. 1. 62/1 The bands of the swinging cappel..might have struck against the catch plate causing loosening of bands and resultant fall. < as lemmas |
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