Boilerplate

Description

A sheet of iron or steel originally used to make the casing for steam boilers. Boilerplate is now a term used any plate of rolled iron or steel with thicknesses of about 0.5 - 1.0 cm.

Synonyms and Related Terms

boiler iron; boiler plate

Authority

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 106

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998