mortise
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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
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
I—Timber joined in the mortises of the posts.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Again, mortises, tenons, dovetails, and joinery of all sorts, no longer demand from hand-work the accuracy, neatness, and perfection of former days.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux
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
It has a capacity to work mortises from 3⁄4′′ to 3′′ square, and 5′′ in depth, and any length desired.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Lay out and cut the mortises for the tenons of the horizontals or rails.
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
If the mortised piece were forced downward until it broke off the tenon at the shoulder, that would be shearing across the grain.
From Wood and Forest by William Noyes
From the upright timber near the upper small cross-beam, which at its other end is mortised into the crane-post, are two mortised bars.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Both these sills again are mortised into the corner posts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
His machines, and subsequent improvements by others, for boring, mortising and turning, display wonderful ingenuity.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
They both laughed and fell to work again, the boy explained his notions of the difficult art of mortising.
From The Ship of Stars by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
To work the two went accordingly—adjusting, screwing, squaring, sawing, planing, mortising, until the dinner-bell called them to the house.
From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
Had they owned an auger or a mortising chisel, or even a good gimlet, the thing would have been easy enough.
From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid
