English edit

Noun edit

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 edit

  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.