Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BIRD'S'-MOUTH
BIRDS'-FOOT-TRE-FOILBIRDS'NEST
BIRD'S'-MOUTH, n.
In architecture, an interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for its reception on the edge of another, as that on a rafter to be laid on a plate.
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