joggle

English

A joggle (engineering)
being created in sheet metal

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡəl

Verb

joggle (third-person singular simple present joggles, present participle joggling, simple past and past participle joggled)

1. (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
2. (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
3. To jog or run while juggling.
4. (architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
   • Gwilt

     The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.

Noun

joggle (plural joggles)

1. (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
2. (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.