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underplate
underplate
English
Noun
underplate (plural underplates)
- An armoured plate that forms part of a mortice lock
- (geology) A tectonic plate that forms or moves under another
Verb
underplate (third-person singular simple present underplates, present participle underplating, simple past and past participle underplated)
- (geology) To act as an underplate