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bedplate
n. (context engineering English) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed.
Usage examples of "bedplate".
That wild hope dead, he stared a long time at the empty bedplate before he went on to check the auxiliary drive.
Anvil now, that broad aluminum bedplate on which all shipments from the future were dropped.
He towed the drill into place beside his mark and welded the bedplate to the iron, and set the oxyhydrogen head to cut a forty-centimeter core.
But what if they had said, We are not going to spoil our fine churches by sticking props all around them, and had resorted to concealed bedplates and invisible rods of iron, would their structures have been better or nobler or more enduring?