striking plate

English

Noun

striking plate (plural striking plates)

1. The plate against which the latch of a door lock strikes as the door is closed.
2. Part of the centering of an arch, which is driven back to loosen the centering in striking it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “striking plate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)