WordNet
n. covering consisting of a plate used to cover over or close in a chamber or receptacle
Usage examples of "cover plate".
Its full attention was apparently on Kolchin, watching as the bodyguard probed his strip of collar stiffener delicately inside the small crack he'd opened in the lock's cover plate.
Getting down on the deck on his knees he studies the cover plate, finally straightening up and looking at Yarrl.
Still, it took Luke only a couple of minutes to get the cover plate off and pull the wires out of his way.
He'd unscrewed the front cover plate from the data-processing unit.
Just before my feet touched it, its cover plate slid smoothly aside.
With amazing dexterity, he had the cover plate open and his finger on the cutoff switch.
The mouth of the storm lunged toward them, and Liet closed the cover plate, hoping the ancient meteorological apparatus would hold together.