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n. A fan-shaped tenon that forms a tight interlocking joint when fitted into a corresponding mortise.

n. A joint formed by interlocking one or more such tenons and mortises.

v. To cut into or join by means of dovetails.

v. To connect or combine precisely or harmoniously.

verb-intransitive. To be joined together by means of dovetails.

verb-intransitive. To combine or interlock into a unified whole: The nurses' schedules dovetailed, so that one was always on duty.

n. A type of joint where adjoining boards are fastened by interlocking fan-shaped cutouts.

v. To unite with a dovetail joint.

v. To fit together well.

n. A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one.

v.

v. To cut to a dovetail.

v. To join by means of dovetails.

v. To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.

n. In carpentry, a tenon cut in the form of a dove's tail spread, or of a reversed wedge; a manner of fastening boards or timbers together by letting tenons so cut on one into corresponding cavities or mortises in another.

To unite by tenons in the form of a pigeon's tail spread let into corresponding mortises in a board or timber: as, to dovetail the angles of a box.

Figuratively, to unite closely, as if by dovetails; fit or adjust exactly and firmly; adapt, as one institution to another, so that they work together smoothly and harmoniously.

n. plural Two irons, one with a flange, the other with a recess, cut to a taper: used to hold carriage-doors in position.

n. a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises

v. fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail

"A thru single dovetail_, Fig. 267, is similar to a slip-joint except that instead of a tenon there is a dovetail."

dovetailed    dovetailing    dovetails   

mortise joint    mortise-and-tenon joint    fit   

joint    dovetail-molding    dovetail-plates    secret dovetail    dovetail-file    dovetail-joint    dovetail-saw    dental-cut dove-tail   

mortise    tail    cog    cock