"tubeplate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From tube + plate.",
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      "form": "tubeplates",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1944 May and June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:",
          "text": "Such soot blowers often have movable jets so that the jet can be directed towards different parts of the tubeplate in turn.",
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          "ref": "1951 August, “British Railways Standard Class \"4\" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 543:",
          "text": "The smokebox tubeplate is of the drum-head type, and there are 21 large flue tubes, 5⅛ in. dia. outside, and 157 small tubes, 1¾ in. dia. outside; length between tubeplates is 13 ft.",
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        "A plate across the barrel of a boiler, containing many small holes to receive the firetubes."
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        [
          "barrel",
          "barrel"
        ],
        [
          "boiler",
          "boiler"
        ],
        [
          "firetube",
          "firetube"
        ]
      ]
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  "word": "tubeplate"
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  "etymology_text": "From tube + plate.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1944 May and June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:",
          "text": "Such soot blowers often have movable jets so that the jet can be directed towards different parts of the tubeplate in turn.",
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          "ref": "1951 August, “British Railways Standard Class \"4\" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 543:",
          "text": "The smokebox tubeplate is of the drum-head type, and there are 21 large flue tubes, 5⅛ in. dia. outside, and 157 small tubes, 1¾ in. dia. outside; length between tubeplates is 13 ft.",
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        "A plate across the barrel of a boiler, containing many small holes to receive the firetubes."
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          "firetube",
          "firetube"
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