A fishplate is a metal or wooden plate bolted to the sides of two abutting rails. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
Most of the rail was old chair iron, short, and consequently more time was used in making the change than would have been required had our work been on fishplate rail. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
The fishplate instead of the frog, and the steel rail in place of the good old snakehead!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference
From one of the holes for the fishplate bolts there dangled a rotten cord, and on the sand beneath this improvised yet apparently effective gallows lay a human skull and bones, quite white and beautifully polished by the action of sun and wind. From Wordnik.com. [The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan] Reference
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