A butt joint is a joinery technique in which two members are joined by simply butting them together. The butt joint is the simplest joint to make since it merely involves cutting ...

While the Butt Joint is the most basic method of woodworking joinery, a Mitered Butt Joint is often more favorable, because the end grain of the two pieces of stock are hidden.

1. A butt joint. 2. A butt hinge. [Middle English butten, from Anglo-Norman butter (variant of Old French bouter; see butt 1) and from but, end; see butt 4.

noun Building Trades. a joint formed by two pieces of wood or metal united end to end without overlapping.

noun Building Trades. a joint formed by two pieces of wood or metal united end to end without overlapping.