mortise
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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
Clamp all four pieces on a flat surface with the bottom ends even, then lay out the mortises for the rails and panels on all four pieces at once with a try-square.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
They are suitable for filing out keyways, mortises, &c., and for these purposes should have at least one safe edge.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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
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
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
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
"Not much chance for digging out of here," Rouse observed, after examining the huge stones, literally mortised together, and the narrow window aperture with its iron gratings.
From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham
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
Upon each end of the block stands a post, a cubit wide and thick, the upper end of which is somewhat cut away and is mortised into the beams of the building.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
"The practices in the art of carpentry are called planeing, sawing, mortising, scribing, moulding, &c."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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
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
In the highest class of furniture where loose cushions are used, the seat base is formed by solidly mortising a frame together on which is woven a heavy cane seating.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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
