1694,John Narborough; Jasmen Tasman [i.e.,Abel Tasman]; John Wood; Frederick Marten [i.e.,Friedrich Martens], “[The Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland] Of the Crustaceous Fish that I Observed”, in [probablyTancred Robinson], editor,An Account of Several Late Voyages & Discoveries to the South and North.[…], London:[…] Sam[uel] Smith and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to theRoyal Society,[…],→OCLC, 4th part, section V (Of the Star-fish),pages118–119:
Beſides this, another fineStarfiſh came to my Hands,[…] Its body hath ten corners, and it hath a Star above vvith as many Rays; each of theſe one may compare unto a Sail of the VVindmills that the Children run againſt the VVind vvithal, or to a piece of ſuch Croſſes that are broad before, and narrovv vvhere they meet together; that is to ſay, of the ſhape of aDove-tail:[…]
After marking out the pins on the drawer sides, we proceed with the next operation, that is, sawing thedovetails ready for chopping out the waste material.
1944 April, Edwin M. Love, “Handmade Dovetails”, in Charles McLendon, editor,The Popular Science Monthly, volume144, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Company,→ISSN,→OCLC,page151, column 1:
DOVETAIL joints, well known for their strength, have long been used in fine cabinet work. Nowadays they are frequently displaced by other types of joints that are easier to make with power tools, but where a self-locking joint is needed for use without glue, thedovetail is unsurpassed.
A tenon cut into a wedge shape resembling a dove's tail so that it interlocks with a mortise having a corresponding shape in a dovetail joint.
(heraldry) Aline resembling a dovetail joint(sense 2.1).
1722,Alexander Nisbet, “Of the Points and Parts of the Shield; and Forms of Lines, which Divide the Shield into Several Parts”, inA System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical:[…], Edinburgh:[…] J. MackEuen,→OCLC,page23:
I ſhall add other tvvo Forms ofLines,[…] The firſt of theſe tvvo is termedPatee, orDove-Tail, from a Form ofArt uſed by Joiners, vvho make Joints one into the other by that Name:[…]
1736, John Harris, “ASSEMBLEE”, inLexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences:[…], 5th edition, volume I, London:[…] J. Walthoe,[…],→OCLC, column 2:
ASSEMBLEE, [inHeraldry,] aDovetail or more to hold the tvvo Parts of the Eſcutcheon together, vvhere the Partition Line is, being countercharged, is ſome of the Metal and ſome of the Colour of the Eſcutcheon.
1765, Mark Anthony Porny[pseudonym; Antoine Pyron du Martre], “Of the Charges. Article I. Of Honourable Ordinaries.”, inThe Elements of Heraldry,[…], London:[…]J[ohn] Newbery,[…],→OCLC, section II (Of the Pale),page47:
type of joint where adjoining components are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a dove’s tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes
[T]heſe Piles ought to be placed contrary to the Stillings, vvhich ſurround or croſs them every three Feet, andDove-tail'd into the ſquare Supporters;[…]
In house-building it is further forbidden [by Sultan Muhammed Shah] todovetail or make the ends of the timbers (e.g. of the roof) fit accurately together, and also to build two verandahs, one on each side of the house, with their floors on a level with the floor of the main building; if two verandahs are used, the floor of one must be lower than that of the main building (kelek anak).
Close contacts are also maintained between the chief operating officers of the railways and the movement and transport officers of the Service departments todovetail railway transport into the schemes of the fighting forces.
1988, Kenji Hakuta, “Why Bilinguals?”, in Frank S. Kessel, editor,The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Essays in Honor ofRoger Brown, Hillsdale, N.J.; Hove, East Sussex:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,→ISBN,page299:
I felt that through the combined study of psychology and linguistics I would find out how children learned language, and that I would be able todovetail this knowledge into my business career in Japan.
2024, Diego Comin, Robert C. Johnson, Callum Jones,Supply Chain Constraints and Inflation [preprint], p. 2
This “markup shock” interpretation of the role of binding [constraints]dovetails well with related work by Bernanke and Blanchard (2023), which uses an empirical model to argue that product market shocks (which raise prices given wages) explain a large share of recent US inflation.
2002, Nader H. Bshouty, Jeffrey C. Jackson, Christino Tamon, “Exploring Learnability between Exact and PAC”, in Jyrki Kivinen, Robert H. Sloan, editors,Computational Learning Theory: 15th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, COLT 2002, Sydney, Australia, July 8–10, 2002: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNAI); 2375; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Berlin; Heidelberg:Springer-Verlag,→ISBN,→ISSN,page248:
However, we can construct a single master algorithm that DPExact learns from unknown distribution by simplydovetailing the algorithms. The precise way in which wedovetail the algorithms depends on whether our goal is time or query efficiency.
(music) To seamlessly move amelody from one instrument to another.
The task now facing Mr Crook and his team in the multi-disciplinary programme is sequencing the works going forward, to ensure track, signalling, station works and overhead line installationsdovetail together.
If I have a row with any fellow, he’s always the first to taunt me with being what he and his friends have made me. I don’t feel it so much now. I used to at first. Onedovetails into all that sort of thing in time, and the edge of your feelings, as I may say, wears off by degrees.
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