pole plate (English, noun)
expansion: pole plate (plural pole plates)
Senses:
glosses: A horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters, differing from the plate in that it is not resting on the wall.
glosses: Any of various plates used to secure an attachment to a pole.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure that forms at the pole of the spindle during the first meiotic or mitotic division in some animals.
Forms:
form: pole plates
tags: plural
form: pole-plate
tags: alternative