drawplate

English

Etymology

draw +‎ plate

Noun

drawplate (plural drawplates)

  1. A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for drawplate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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