butterfly wedge

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noun Carpentry.

a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.

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Also called butterfly.

Words nearby butterfly wedge

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How to use butterfly wedge in a sentence

The execution of two police officers in cold blood has shocked the city and driven a deeper wedge between the cops and the mayor.
Two Cops ‘Assassinated’ in Brooklyn|Michael Daly|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“When you become a peshmerga your life becomes like a butterfly,” she said.
Embedding With the Women Who Are Kicking ISIS Ass|Susannah George|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So, to commemorate her 75th birthday, the two got matching butterfly tattoos on their wrists.
Masters of Alt Sex: SuicideGirls Hits Puberty and Wants to Invade Your TV Set|Marlow Stern|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This video remedies that injustice, showcasing an owl doing a butterfly stroke in Lake Michigan.
Swimming Owls, Jane Krakowski’s Peter Pan Live! Audition, and More Viral Videos|The Daily Beast Video|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A decade ago, gays were a wedge issue used by Republicans to energize the base.
It Gets Better—but Mostly if You Live in a Rich, Democratic Country|Jay Michaelson|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The individual prisms are usually slender, with one beveled, wedge-like end, but are sometimes needle-like.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
She became my sweetheart, temporarily; but a born butterfly, she soon fluttered away, leaving me disconsolate—for a time!
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
I dont think much of this jam pie, complained Chet, holding up a wedge that he had taken from his sisters basket.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
It should be fixed in the head by means of a thin, barbed iron wedge.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
Out by the hill, a butterfly, snow white, rested a moment on the young girl's hair.
The Dragon Painter|Mary McNeil Fenollosa