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Culvertails

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An interesting tidbit for some maybe, I mentioned to a friend that I had picked up a book called "A Glossary of Wood" by Thomas Corkhill which is effectively a woodworker's dictionary of thousands of terms related to woodwork and he replied:

"Does it mention Culvertails?"

I must admit I was scratching my head at that, I've never heard of a "Culvertail" so I asked what it was and he said it was an old term for a Dovetail to which I was skeptical and that he might've been having me on, but I had a look.

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Well, I wasn't expecting that, from what I've read "Culver" is an archaic term for pigeons and doves. You learn something new every day!
 
That's a new one to me, but what about shovetails? Are they in there?
 
I can picture a s somewhat specialist round in a pub quiz based on that book. With almost exactly zero participants getting any right. :lol:
 
The term up here for ‘dove’ is ‘doo’, so we should have dootails.

Looking alphabetically down, on the next page should be the ‘woodworking’ term I used when the RAS kicked back...
 
Guineafowl21":28k9qpvg said:
The term up here for ‘dove’ is ‘doo’, so we should have dootails.

Looking alphabetically down, on the next page should be the ‘woodworking’ term I used when the RAS kicked back...
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What ? cunnili......... :o
 
Guineafowl21":1sasrocd said:
Looking alphabetically down, on the next page should be the ‘woodworking’ term I used when the RAS kicked back...
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Cunonia Capensis? :eusa-think:
 
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