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
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
I see new words that sound cool like dado and kerf and tenon and mortise.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
When the teeth of a wheel are inserted in mortises or slots provided in the wheel-rim, it is termed a mortised-wheel, or a cogged-wheel, and the teeth are termed cogs.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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
The tower once had contained three floors, one above the other; the mortises for the sleepers being yet visible, ranged regularly and at equal distances around the inner side.
From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
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
She contrived to build in the bed of the stream pillars twelve feet apart, the stones of which were joined with strong iron clamps, fixed into the mortises with melted lead.
From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard
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
First, the ground sill is a square of 20 ft., made of yellow pine sticks mortised together and pinned with stout trunnels.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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
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
For this purpose a rather small chisel of the kind known among cabinet makers as a mortising chisel will be required.
From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick
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
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
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
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
