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(British) the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls
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footplate
Word definitions for footplate in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The footplate of a steam locomotive is a large metal plate that rests on top of the frames and is normally covered with wooden floorboards. It is usually the full width of the locomotive and extends from the front of the cab to the rear of cab or coal bunker ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But what Kenneth really wanted was to be where the action is, on the footplate . ▪ He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine. ▪ Kenneth Leech spent his hundredth ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Footplate \Foot"plate`\, n. (Locomotives) See Footboard (a) .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive, particularly in the UK, which supports the boiler and the engineer's cab. 2 The engineer's cab in any kind of train. 3 (cx anatomy English) (rfdef: English)
Usage examples of footplate.
An acclimatised Britisher, he had seen that summer eve from the footplate of an engine cab of the Loop line railway company while the rain refrained from falling glimpses, as it were, through the windows of loveful households in Dublin city and urban district of scenes truly rural of happiness of the better land with Dockrell's wallpaper at one and ninepence a dozen, innocent Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .
He had taken Mintaka up on the footplate and turned the horses' heads unerringly in the direction of Dabba and the river.
Directly under him the footplates articulated against each other as the train clattered through the curves of the line.
The man would step over the footplates as quickly as he could, not wanting to be in that vulnerable and exposed position for a moment longer than was necessary to make the crossing, and Hendrick would have to be quicker still.
While it was still moving, Manfred leapt onto the footplates, and thrust the Luger into the astonished faces of the driver and his fireman.
Balancing easily on the footplates, the Hyksos drew his recurved bow and aimed at me, or so it seemed.
For all my dreamy journeys speeding south on the footplates of those night trains, the purposeful bustle of Bracebridge High Street was still a source of fascination to me.
Behind them a hundred chariots in succession neatly executed the same manoeuvre, and the charioteers swarmed down from the footplates to begin watering the horses.
He found purchase and clung on to the side of the boxcar, his feet still free but scrabbling for the footplates, and at that moment hands like steel claws seized his injured ankle, the full weight of a heavy body bore him down, racking him out against the side of the car.
The first target came up fast, and Nefer braced himself on the bouncing swerving footplate.