butment cheek

English

Noun

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].

References
  1. 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
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