butting-joint Carpentry.
[see butt v.2]
A joint ‘formed by the surfaces of two pieces of wood whereof one is perpendicular to the fibres, and the other in their direction, or making an oblique angle with them, as for example the joints made by the struts and braces with the post’ (Gwilt).
| 1837 Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 105 Butting-joints are fixed together with bolts. 1850 Jrnl. Roy. Agric. Soc. XI. ii. 569 Notching or cocking down, butting joints, scarfing [etc.]..are the principal combinations of timbers in trusses. |