Meanings (ES + gloss)
cola de milano • cola de pato • juntura serrátil
In full dovetail joint: a type of joint where adjoining components are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a dove's tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes.
After marking out the pins on the drawer sides, we proceed with the next operation, that is, sawing the dovetails ready for chopping out the waste material.
With a warding file cut a dovetail on each of the ends to be joined, as shown by Fig. 1.
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
machihembrar
To unite (components) with a dovetail (noun sense 2.1) or similar joint.
In house-building it is further forbidden [by Sultan Muhammed Shah] to dovetail or make the ends of the timbers (e.g. of the roof) fit accurately together, and also to build two ve…
encajar • machihembrar
To combine or fit (things) together well.
The executive board dovetailed its decision neatly with the prior projects the company had taken up.
Through my new project, I dovetail my interests in botany and programming.
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