a carpentry terminology question.

this was forwarded to me... I guess somebody thinks I'm an expert or
something, but I don't have an answer. so what do y'all think?


>
> This has been bothering me for a few years. Their are a
> pair of words used in carpentry, and I can't for the life of me,
> recall what these two words are. I had heard them many years
> ago, and they have escaped my memory. If anybody can tell me
> what these two words are, I would much appreciate it.
> I recall that they were one syllable words. The word
> "kerf" comes to mind, and that word may be similar to the words I
> am looking for, but the word "kerf" means somthing entirely different.
>
> When making certain cuts with a circular saw, the saw
> doesn't make a straight butt edge at the end of the cut, due to the
> circular nature of the blade. There is a little piece of wood
> left over, which generally needs to be cut with a hand saw, to make
> the end of the cut straight, yet not "overcutting" into the piece
> you want to save.
> There is a specific WORD for this little leftover piece of
> wood. What is that word?
>
> This word actually comes as a pair of words. In
> different cuts of wood, there is complimentary piece leftover
> wood, not the inside leftover piece, but an outside leftover piece,
> which also has it's own name. That would be the other word I am
> looking for.
>
> I have often heard, when a person doesn't know how to
> spell a word, someone will tell them "look it up in the
> dictionary". Well, how are they suppose to look it up if they
> don't know how to spell it?
> I sometimes wish there were a "back door" to the
> dictionary. When you know the definition of a word, but you don't
> know the word, there should be some way to look it up.