dial. Also -plot, -plit. [f. WALL sb.2 + PLAT sb.2 3; app. an alteration of WALL-PLATE.]

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  1.  = WALL-PLATE 1.

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1420.  Searchers’ Verdicts, in Surtees Misc. (1890), 17. That William Selby hafe abouen the same walle, space to ryst his walleplat apon.

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1617.  in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 205. The roofe … to stand on wall platts of oake.

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1879.  Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., 468. Wall-plit, the piece of timber which is placed on the top of a wall for the purpose of fastening roof-rafters to,—the wall-plate.

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  b.  A shelf fixed in the wall.

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1841.  Hartshorne, Salopia Antiq., 608.

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  2.  The spotted fly-catcher: = RAFTER sb.1 2, RAFTER-bird.

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1841.  Hartshorne, Salopia Antiq., 608. Wall-plat 1. The Flycatcher: Muscicapa. Linn.

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