faying surface

That surface of a plate o angle-iron which is to be against the object to which it is to be riveted. The faying-surface of the side-arm of the angle-iron of a ship's side, and the inside or faying-surface of the plate, are in contact. *faz-zō-let (faz as făt), s. [Ital. fazzoletto; O. Sp. fazoleto, prob. from Ger. fetzen a rag, a shred.] IMG:content-1485.png:[blocks in formation] *feague, v . t . [Ger. fegen to cleanse, to scour, to chastise.] To beat, to whip. *feak, *fēake, s. [A spurious form arising from the mistaken notion that fax or feax , A. S. feax , was a plural form.) A curl, a lock of hair. "Can dally with his mistre ' dangling feak." Marston: Satires, i