The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
drawplate (plural drawplates)
A hardened plate of metal, ruby, etc. having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
Source: Wiktionary
Draw"plate`, n.
Definition: A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.