fishplate in English

noun
1
a flat piece of metal used to connect adjacent rails in a railroad track.
The junior railway minister embellished the story, saying that the fishplates holding the track together had been removed.

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1. Slide chair and fishplate lubricants

2. The joints (14, 21, 31) can be designed as fishplate connections, the mount parts (1, 2, 3, 4) being made of sheet metal.

3. The prosecution admitted a number of exhibits during the trial, including a box of 27 bricks, a blood-stained stone, Bulger's underpants, and the rusty iron bar described as a railway fishplate.