plater

plate +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

plater (plural platers)

1. Someone who plates metal.
2. Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
3. A machine for calendering paper.
4. (biology) A device for depositing cells on a plate.
5. (horse-racing) A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.

• Alpert, palter, replat

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /plater/, [pla.t̪e̞r]

plater inan

1. plate
2. dish

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• "plater" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “plater” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

• platere, platir, platyr, platter

Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), dissimilatory variant of platel; equivalent to plate +‎ -el.

• IPA^(key): /plaˈtɛːr/, /ˈplatər/

plater (plural platers)

1. platter

• English: platter
• Scots: plaeter
• Yola: plathearès, platheares (plural)

• “plater, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

plater m or f

1. indefinite plural of plate

plater f

1. indefinite plural of plate

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

1. platter (serving plate)

• → English: platter

• plater on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub