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

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

After this operation is performed on one cog, it should be tried in the wheel mortises, to test its correctness before cutting out the shanks on all the teeth.

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

Cut the tenons on the ends of the shelf to fit the mortises in the end pieces, numbering each one so the parts can be put together with the tenons in the proper mortises.

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

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 top back board has a tenon on each end that fits into the mortises in the back posts and is rounded at the top as shown.

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

It is carved entirely by means of a jackknife, and the sighting bars are also whittled to shape and mortised permanently into the frame.

From Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Silvio A. Bedini

There are mortised into this longitudinal beam the lower ends of upper posts three palms wide and two thick, which are six feet two palms high, exclusive of their tenons.

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

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

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.

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

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 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