rolled steel plate used esp in the construction of boilers
chiefly NAmer
journalistic material syndicated to various newspapers, formerly distributed as stereotype plates
speech or writing that merely repeats or rehashes doctrine, etc uncritically
fixed strings of wording for use esp in word-processing documents, e.g. clauses in legal contracts
The rest of the will was boilerplate — Ed McBain
in rock climbing, a series of overlapping undercut slabs of rock