单词 | footplate |
释义 | footplate From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfootplatefoot‧plate /ˈfʊtpleɪt/ noun [countable] British Englishthe place on a steam train where the driver stoodExamples from the Corpusfootplate• Several deputy editors and the press had footplate rides.• Kenneth Leech spent his hundredth anniversary on the footplate of a restored engine from his beloved Great Western Railway.• He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine.• But what Kenneth really wanted was to be where the action is, on the footplate. |
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