قورت آغزی

Ottoman Turkish

قورت آغزی

Etymology

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

Noun

قورت آغزی • (kurt ağızı)

1. 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^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1482