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Noun

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butment cheek (plural butment cheeks)

  1. (carpentry) The part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear.[1]

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  1. ^ 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.