cover plate

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   covering consisting of a plate used to cover over or close in a chamber or receptacle

   Broadercovering

Questions about cover plate

What does cover plate mean?

cover plate means "covering consisting of a plate used to cover over or close in a chamber or receptacle".

Is cover plate a common word?

cover plate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.