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noun

Joggle n. (Arch.) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping; sometimes, but incorrectly, applied to a separate piece fitted into two adjacent stones, or the like.

Joggle joint (Arch.), a joint in any kind of building material, where the joining surfaces are made with joggles.

verb

Joggle v. t. (past & past part. joggled; pres. part. joggling)

To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

(Arch.) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel. "The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts."

Joggle v. i. To shake or totter; to slip out of place.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Joggle" Quotes from Famous Books

... the entrance are joggled into each other, the key-stone having a joggle on either side.—I have not observed this peculiarity in any other specimen of Norman masonry.—Between these porches apartments, along the interior of which runs a cornice, supported by grotesque corbels, and under it a row of ...

— Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2) • Dawson Turner

... carried along by two privates. He was peevish. "Don't joggle so, Johnson, yeh fool," he cried. "Think m' leg is made of iron? If yeh can't carry me decent, put me down an' let some ...

— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... that he could not eat another bite unless he should get up and run around the house to "joggle deown" what he had already swallowed. He leaned back in his chair and surveyed the family: on his right, generous-hearted Blossy, who had been smiling approval and encouragement at him all through the repast; at his left, and just beyond Angy, Miss Abigail indulging in what remained ...

— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund

... found it under the bed. The Dickey boy also had hidden his treasures. She got the hammer and Hiram pried off the lid, which was quite securely nailed. "I'd ought to have had it opened before," said she. "He hadn't no business to have a nailed-up box 'round. Don't joggle it so, Hiram. There's no knowin' what's in it. There ...

— Young Lucretia and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins

... the doctor's immaculate silk hat fly into the mud, his wig, blown comically awry, fall over his eyes, and his spectacles joggle down until they sat astride the tip of a ...

— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe

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