قورت آغزی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قورت (kurt, “wolf”) + آغز (ağız, “mouth”).

Noun

قورت آغزی • (kurt ağızı)

dovetail, culvertail, a common type of joint used in woodworking joinery

Descendants

Turkish: kurtağzı

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurtağzı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2851
Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “dovetail”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 146b
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورت آغزی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1482

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