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Definition of Butt hinge
1. Noun. A hinge mortised flush into the edge of the door and jamb.
Definition of Butt hinge
1. Noun. (context: carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, lid, covers, etc.; so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the frame, stop molding, and casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Butt hinge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Such a hinge is usually in the form of a butt hinge fitted with springs by ...
A small butt hinge of iron or brass with a rising joint, projecting from one ..."
2. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1906)
"The common door hinge is usually a butt or butt hinge, the varieties of which
... The parliament hinge is a sort of T-shaped butt hinge to afford more room ..."
3. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1903)
"A contraction of butt hinge, which see, and generally used as a substitute for
the longer term. butt hinge. A hinge for hanging doors, etc., ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"The butt hinge was unknown, while the strap, or surface, ... With the adoption
of the butt hinge for general use, the opportunity of utilizing the hinge to ..."
5. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1881)
"See fig. 624. Butt. A contraction of Butt-hinge, which see. Butt-hinge. ...
See also Loose-joint Butt-hinge, and Loose-pin Butt-hinge. Button. ..."
6. Locks and Builders Hardware: A Hand Book for Architects by Henry Robinson Towne (1904)
"The butt-hinge was unknown, and the strap or surface hinge in universal use, ...
With the adoption of the butt-hinge (that is, one applied to the edge or ..."
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