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Joggle   Listen
noun
Joggle  n.  (Arch.) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping; sometimes, but incorrectly, applied to a separate piece fitted into two adjacent stones, or the like.
Joggle joint (Arch.), a joint in any kind of building material, where the joining surfaces are made with joggles.






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"Joggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... carriage-door gently, with a bow and a smile and another touch of his cap; and, the next moment, with another sharp unearthly shriek of the steam-whistle similar to that which had heralded its entrance into Havant station, the train, giving a joggle and a jerk as it got under way, was speeding along again, across the rattling bridges that spanned the moats of the fortifications and through the Portsea lines, to the terminus ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson

... weekly hops Maggie kept a spot on the wall warm with her back. She felt and showed so much gratitude whenever a self-sacrificing partner invited her to dance that his pleasure was cheapened and diminished. She had even grown used to noticing Anna joggle the reluctant Jimmy with her elbow as a signal for him to invite her chum to walk over his feet through ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry



Words linked to "Joggle" :   dowel, agitate, shaking, holdfast, fix, secure, wag, wiggle, jiggle



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