Definition of "plater" []

• Someone who plates metal. (noun)
• Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items (noun)
• A machine for calendering paper. (noun)

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• "The champion Arab of the world was matched against one of the worst thoroughbreds in training; the English "plater" carried about five stone more than the pride of the East, and won by a quarter of a mile."
• "They want jobs but they are not looking for any, they want health care but they are not sick, they want everything handed to them on a silver plater."
• "Her parents, Barry and Sally, are a plater and a cleaner respectively."