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
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 bonded the blocks with the mass concrete backing.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
It was fortunate they did, as it happened, for it afterwards occurred to the assistant that he had forgotten to allow for mortises and joints.
From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman
If the wood shrinks, or the tenons do not fit the mortises all through, or the glue is deficient, these various portions speedily come to pieces.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux
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
The wheel, however, should be designed so that the mortises will not terminate in the arms of the wheel.
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
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
The bed upon which the timber is placed to be mortised is gibbed to a sliding frame, which allows it to be set to any position, with the chisel straight or at an angle.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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
The doors are now made by mortising the top and bottom pieces to take the 3/8-in. panel which is glued in place.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
I made for my employer a machine for mortising the hubs of carriages, which proved very profitable to him, and was, perhaps, the first of its kind used in this country.
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
Maudslay's mortising machine, which he contrived for the Block machinery, although intended originally to operate upon wood, contained all the essential principles and details required for acting on metals.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
After this the chiseling out or mortising can be proceeded with.
From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick
At present, mortising and dowelling have come to the front as proper processes, especially for table-building; and this time the style appears under the name of "Mission furniture."
From Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples by Candace Wheeler
