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
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
S. A round, taper shaft, strengthened above and below the mortises with iron hoops.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
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
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
Table Complete The shelf should be finished on the top side and the four edges, and the corners cut out to fit the mortises in the table legs.
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
This consists of two beams fifteen feet long, three palms wide, and two thick, mortised into the crane-post, and they protrude a cubit from the back of the crane-post and are fastened together.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
It was far stronger than the one in the galley cabin, and had been set within the wood and mortised so that only a small, flat keyhole showed.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
The lower ends of all of them are mortised into separate sills laid flat upon the ground; these sills are five feet long, a foot and a half wide, and a foot thick.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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
Cogged Joints.—This differs from the regular tenoning and mortising methods, principally because the groove or recess is in the form of an open gain.
From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe
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
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 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
