wall plate

1. 1.

   plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load

   Broaderplate

Questions about wall plate

What does wall plate mean?

wall plate means "plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load".

Is wall plate a common word?

wall 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.