DCHP-3

squaw notch

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1930
He whetted his axe once more to a razor-like keenness, and began to notch them into place. He disdained the clumsy "squaw notch," where one log sits simply in a shallow groove cut in the one below, and fitted them neatly into place with the "saddle notch". . . .