waney
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English
Etymology
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Noun
waney (plural waneys)
- (woodworking) A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “waney”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)