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

I see new words that sound cool like dado and kerf and tenon and mortise.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine

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

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

On account of the dovetailing the wedges exert a pressure pressing the teeth into the mortises.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

All the mortises and diamond shaped openings should be marked and cut with a chisel from both sides of the board.

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

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

From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton

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

These cross-bars should be carefully mortised into the frame as shown in the small diagram in center of figure three.

From Woodcraft by E. H. (Elmer Harry) Kreps

Large italic letters are sometimes mortised at the corners, instead of kerned, to allow the next letter to fit close.

From Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 by A. A. Stewart

The logs were mortised into each other at the corners; openings were left for the doors and windows.

From Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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 thinness of the plates renders any mortising in the shelf unnecessary, and the small intervals between the perforations in the strips enables the whole space occupied by the shelves to be used most economically.

From The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Arthur Lee Humphreys

These included "Planing, moulding, rabbeting, grooving, mortising, and sawing, both in coarse and fine work, in curved, winding, and transverse directions, and shaping wood in complicated forms."

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

These are 4 by 4 in. pieces of wood, hard pine preferred, planed and securely set up in the X-pieces by mortising into the same.

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

Great care must be taken that the mortising does not extend to a depth that will cause the back to be thin and weak.

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