ˈwall-plat dial.
Also -plot, -plit.
[f. wall n.1 + plat n.2 3; app. an alteration of wall-plate.]
1. = wall-plate 1.
| 1420 Searchers' Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1890) 17 That William Selby hafe abouen the same walle, space to ryst his walleplat apon. 1617 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 205 The roofe..to stand on wall platts of oake. 1879 G. F. 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. |
b. A shelf fixed in the wall.
| 1841 Hartshorne Salopia Antiq. 608. |
2. The spotted fly-catcher: = rafter n.1 2, rafter-bird.
| 1841 Hartshorne Salopia Antiq. 608 Wall-plat 1. The Flycatcher: Muscicapa. Linn. |