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Record 1 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finish Carpentry
DEF

Cut to a dovetail or into dovetails (dovetailing the end of the board with a special device).

OBS

Splayed tenon, shaped like a dove's tail, broader at one end than at the base.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Menuiserie
OBS

Queue-d'aronde ou queue-d'hironde. Évasement en trapèze d'un tenon d'assemblage, ou d'une agrafe de pierres, empêchant leur arrachement par traction; désigne en particulier le mode d'assemblage en équerre des bois de bout, dans lequel la pièce mâle porte une série de tenons trapézoïdaux correspondant aux mortaises de la pièce femelle.

OBS

Les termes «queue d'aronde» ou «d'hironde» s'écrivent avec ou sans trait d'union.

Key term(s)
  • en queue-d'aronde
  • en queue d'hironde

Spanish

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