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n. A solid piece of material that has enough strength and sturdiness to serve as the surface to which other things are attached to be supported.
Usage examples of "baseplate".
The next rounds, once the baseplate was buried into the ground, would be on target.
After the failure of Dentist and the fumbling of Baseplate, he decides to migrate with the Visigoths.
A third incorporated the actual drill and baseplate for the shot-hole.
With a single easy bending stride, he slid his shovel crunching beneath the pile of stony dirt, half straightened, pivoted, and slung the shovelful into the fire, a smooth swinging movement, the heel of the shovel ringing on the baseplate of the door.
The men in the mortar platoon also went burdened with a mortar tube or baseplate, or a packframe loaded with 66 mm mortar bombs, plus propellant horseshoes.
Jason pushed a sharp chisel between the upper case and the baseplate where he had removed the solder, and when he leaned on it the case shifted slightly, held down only by its own weight.
Water began to run down into the pit and Mikah went to work bailing it out, while the gap between the hood and the baseplate widened.
The heavy baseplate, bridge, and standard, weighing altogether over 100 kilograms, are not needed.
From the activity inside and the way her father darted down to the bottom, Dair guessed that something had gotten stuck in the baseplate tracks again.
The entire baseplate the bar had stood on was enclosed in what appeared to be an enormous airbag.
The biggest daytime signature was the dust from the baseplates when they slammed into the ground.
There were the baseplates and sighting gear for both mortars, then the two mortar tubes.
All traces of the mortars on the point had been removed, the tubes and baseplates brought inside, the rocket-launchers and packing crates dropped out at sea.
Instead, he picked out the anti-aircraft guns, standing tall and ungainly as giraffes on their circular baseplates, the long barrels already pointed skywards, ready to hurl their air-burst shrapnel as high as 20,000 feet into the sky.
Scattered everywhere were mortar tubes, baseplates, rows of packs with rifles propped against them, tent canvas, machine-gun belts—the linked cartridges coiled in the metal ammo cans—flak jackets, helmets, and a variety of communications gear.