mortise

If not, then you may have to set the hinge plate deeper in its mortise.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 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

There are two basic types of latches: tubular and mortise.

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

These mortises need not be deep if the joints are to be reinforced later with lag screws as is the clock shown.

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

Unmortise, un-mor′tis, v.t. to loosen the mortises or joints of.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Table Complete The shelf should be finished on the top side and the four edges, and the corners cut out to fit the mortises in the table legs.

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

The mortises are first dressed out to a uniform size and taper, using two templates to test them with, one of which is for the breadth and the other for the width of the mortise.

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

Cotter drills, slotting drills, or keyway drills, three names designating the same tool, are employed to cut out keyways, mortises, or slots.

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

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

The other ends of these two small cross-beams are mortised into an upright timber, six feet three palms long, and three-quarters wide and thick; the mortise is transfixed by wooden pegs.

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

The observatory proper, octagonal in shape, is securely mortised into the top sill and covered with a corrugated iron roof conical in shape.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

In the place of the nave it has a thick barrel, in which are mortised the lower ends of the spokes, just as their upper ends are mortised into the rim.

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

His machines, and subsequent improvements by others, for boring, mortising and turning, display wonderful ingenuity.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

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

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 firmer-chisel is a general utility tool, being suited for hand pressure or mallet pounding, for paring or for light mortising.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The figures are made of small pieces of wood neatly fitted together by inlaying and mortising, without any spike of any kind.

From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks