Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In carpentry, an interior angle or notch cut across the grain at the extremity of a piece of timber, for its reception on the edge of another piece.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called
crow's-foot in the United States.
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Examples
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If the logs are squared, cut a small bird's-mouth notch in the rafter where it extends over the side-plate logs of the pen and bevel the top end of your gable rafters to fit against the ridge-pole as in the diagrams.
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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