rider plate

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   a horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson

   Broaderbeam

   Part ofhull

Questions about rider plate

What does rider plate mean?

rider plate means "a horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson".

Is rider plate a common word?

rider 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.