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Definition of Dovetail joint
1. Noun. A mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises.
Generic synonyms: Mortise Joint, Mortise-and-tenon Joint
Derivative terms: Dovetail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovetail Joint
Literary usage of Dovetail joint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exercises in Wood-working, with a Short Treatise on Wood: Written for Manual by Ivin Sickels (1889)
"To lay out and construct an end-dovetail-joint. ... 6 shows an oblique dovetail-joint
used in a gallows-brace, which is made of lighter material than the ..."
2. Elementary Principles of Carpentry by Thomas Tredgold, Peter Barlow (1853)
"143, Plate XXI. represent the angle of a building, where the wall-plates are
joined by a dovetail joint; the part ab, being the crossway of the wood, ..."
3. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"dovetail joint.—This joint has three varieties;—the common dovetail, where tho
dovetails are ... 4680 a plan of ti»i The three varieties of dovetail-joint ..."
4. Industrial Education: A Guide to Manual Training by Samuel Gurley Love (1889)
"MITER JOINT, DOWEL JOINT, AND dovetail joint. The lessons which follow are given
for two purposes, viz.: first to show the necessity of making exact ..."
5. Exercises in Wood-working, with a Short Treatise on Wood: Written for Manual by Ivin Sickels (1889)
"Construction of a Dovetail-Joint. Material.—Same pieces as before, with stub-mortise
sawed off. Work.—To lay out and construct an end-dovetail-joint. ..."
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