turnplate
nounEtymology From turn + plate.
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Rail transport, Railways, Transport A turntable (rotating platform for turning vehicles).
- In the Birmingham station the large turnplate in the locomotive engine house is completed, and the necessary rails fitting it for the reception of engines will he laid in a few days.1839, Peter Lecount, chapter 14, in The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham, Simpkin, Marshall, and Company: