The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drawplate \Draw"plate`\, n. A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
Wiktionary
n. A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
Usage examples of "drawplate".
Harding commenced by manufacturing a drawplate, that is to say, a plate of steel, pierced with conical holes of different sizes, which would successively bring the wire to the wished-for tenacity.
The iron, prepared previously in long thin rods, the ends of which were sharpened with the file, having been introduced into the largest hole of the drawplate, was drawn out by the beam which wound it round itself, to a length of twenty-five or thirty feet, then unrolled, and the same operation was performed successively through the holes of a less size.
For a drawplate, she used her other magical hand, thumb and forefinger overlapping to form a tiny opening.