re-entering angle
Britishnoun
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It would probably be more correct to call it a very obtuse re-entering angle.
From Sea-Power and Other Studies by Bridge, Cyprian, Admiral Sir
The re-entering angle left upon the wood is called the rebate or rabbet.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
At other times poles are laid across a re-entering angle of a house and used as a wood rack, without any support from the ground.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart
Both of these latter differ from his 1797 trace in that the re-entering angle is reinforced by a tenaille whose faces are parallel to the main faces and reach almost to the salients.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
As soon as the washing-trough was brought up from Sharmá, we opened operations by digging a trench, at least twelve feet deep, in the re-entering angle of the bed close to the Mimosa tree.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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