Glossary

The glossary covers the vocabulary of woodworking — the terms that show up in plans, instructions, and YouTube videos with no explanation, and that quietly stop you from following along. From "kerf" and "bevel" to "drawbore" and "rift-sawn," each entry explains what the word means, where it gets used, and what changes when you understand it.

Format-wise, glossary entries are short — definition first, then a short paragraph of context, often with a diagram. They're built to be skimmed and linked from other pages, not read end-to-end. If you're reading a finishing guide that mentions "wet edge" or a joinery guide that talks about "racking," the glossary is where the term gets defined once so the technique pages don't have to.

The entries below cover the core terms across every discipline — wood, tools, joinery, finishing, design — so the rest of Woodwiki reads cleanly without parenthetical asides.