joggle
English
Pronunciation
Verb
joggle (third-person singular simple present joggles, present participle joggling, simple past and past participle joggled)
- (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
- (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
- To jog or run while juggling.
- (architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
- 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture:
- The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.
Translations
To shake slightly
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Noun
joggle (plural joggles)
- (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
- (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.
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