butt hinge

1. 1.

   a hinge mortised flush into the edge of the door and jamb

   Broaderhinge

Questions about butt hinge

What does butt hinge mean?

butt hinge means "a hinge mortised flush into the edge of the door and jamb".

Is butt hinge a common word?

butt hinge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.