transitive. To fasten or join securely; to fix in or join together closely and firmly; (Joinery) to join with a mortise; to fasten into or to by…

= dovetail, n.

transitive. To join by a scarf-joint.

transitive. To fix together with tenon and mortise.

transitive. To fit together or join by means of dovetails, or by a similar method. Const. in, into, to.

transitive. Building and Joinery. To secure the end of (a beam) into a wall plate (wall-plate, n. 1) or other supporting timber by means of a…

Carpentry and Joinery. To plane accurately (the edge of a board), esp. with the aid of a shooting-board.

Carpentry. To fasten with a knee or knees.

transitive. To make an incision in (a board, etc.), for the purpose of mortising or dovetailing; to join or joint together by this method.

Woodworking, Joinery. transitive. To cut or shape to a mitre; to join by means of a mitre joint. Frequently in passive. Also with away, in, into, up.

Carpentry. To fit (timbers) together by halving, n.1, q.v. Also intr. for pass.

transitive. Shipbuilding. To join (a piece of timber) to another piece (typically the keel) by fitting the end of the former into a box-shaped recess…

transitive. To furnish with a tongue (literal or figurative). To join or fit together by means of a tongue and groove or tongue and socket.

To make a lap-joint by overlapping two bevelled or chamfered plank-edges, so as to leave a plane surface.

To connect timbers by means of a ‘cog’; cf. cock, v.4

transitive to join with a butt-joint.

transitive. To dovetail or join by ‘letting in’. U.S.

(transitive) to join by means of a lap joint.