knee timber
A wood knee, often cut from the naturally crooked minute/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="ef328eee7126d5b8feb878c4647cd9b3" target="_blank" >part of a tree (e.g., where a blank" >branch joins the trunk/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="e77e0ec2b1610278add9c8d7082a8d04" blank" >target="_blank" >trunk) or from a blank" >branch of a naval oak artifically bent during growth. (Bucher, 1996)
