chain plate
noun Nautical.
any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
Origin of chain plate
First recorded in 1685–95
Words nearby chain plate
Example sentences from the Web for chain plate
Their painter was fast to a chain-plate, and they cast it adrift.
The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 2 of 3 |William Clark Russell