walplata

walplata [ME walplate], horizontal timber set on wall to support rafters or sim., wallplate. 1295 carpentario adjuvanti . ad faciend' ~as dicti molendini KR Ac 462/14 m. 3; 1355 in emendacione magne coquine ‥ cum hostiis novis et fenestris, ~is, copulis, coopertura Ib. 544/36 m. 2.