butment cheek
English
editNoun
editbutment cheek (plural butment cheeks)
- (carpentry) The part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear.[1]
References
edit- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Butment cheek”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.