mortise

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

Near the upper end are two mortises, each 2x4 inches, quite through the post, one above the other, as shown in the engraving, for the reception of the horizontal arms.

From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton

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

Another method of securing the teeth in the mortises is to dovetail them at the small end and drive wedges between them, as shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

Tenons are enclosed in mortises in order that they may be better joined, and they are transfixed with wooden pins.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

On account of the dovetailing the wedges exert a pressure pressing the teeth into the mortises.

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

If the mortised piece were forced downward until it broke off the tenon at the shoulder, that would be shearing across the grain.

From Wood and Forest by William Noyes

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

To the sides of the mortar above the block are fixed two upright posts, whose upper ends are somewhat cut back and are mortised to the timbers of the building.

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

The figures are made of small pieces of wood neatly fitted together by inlaying and mortising, without any spike of any kind.

From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

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

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

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