mortise

Instead, posts and beams were fitted together with mortise and tenon joints.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2020

Woodwork with mortise and tenon joints, original and restored hardware and tile-faced fireplaces are found throughout the nearly 6,000 square feet of living space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

But Andrew Baren, the president of Katonah Architectural Hardware, recommended using a mortise latch, which is not only more resilient, but can be made with stronger springs to support heavier door levers.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2019

Thick hand-hewn oak beams connected with slotted and tabbed mortise and tenon joints provide the bones of the building, which has deliberately been left unfurnished to showcase its construction.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2015

Iron rod threaded through three rusted loops, old mortise lock with a rusty cam.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The latter are six feet long and just large enough to fit closely into the mortises.

From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton

It was fortunate they did, as it happened, for it afterwards occurred to the assistant that he had forgotten to allow for mortises and joints.

From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman

Bore and chisel out all mortises and see that all the rails fit perfectly, before proceeding with the work.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

These mortises bonded the blocks with the mass concrete backing.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

Mark out and cut the mortises in the top to receive the tenons on the end pieces.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

There was the strange commercial released by his loyal sponsor Nike, in which a rigor mortised Mr. Woods received counsel from the disembodied voice of his late father, Earl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2010

Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full of grade A qualities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Into the ends of the cross-beams facing the second long wall, are mortised the ends of the same number of rafters inclined toward the posts which stand vertically upon the second long wall.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

In these secondary beams, where they rest on the longitudinal beams, are mortised the ends of the same number of rafters as there are posts which stand on the second wall.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

Each of these sills is mortised into each of three cross-beams, of which one is at the right side of the shaft, the second at the left, and the third in the middle.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

The canvas is now tacked on the end pieces and the pieces given one turn before placing the mortising together.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

The strips are crossed at the corners of the boxes by mortising each piece one half of its depth at the proper place—one from above and the other from below—and dovetailing the cross pieces together.

From Type Cases and Composing-room furniture by A. A. Stewart

"The practices in the art of carpentry are called planeing, sawing, mortising, scribing, moulding, &c."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

In order to obviate this inconvenience, I designed an arrangement of a key-groove mortising machine.

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles

After this the chiseling out or mortising can be proceeded with.

From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick