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
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
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 Rose, Joshua
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 Arnoux, L.
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 Agricola, Georgius
All the mortises and diamond shaped openings should be marked and cut with a chisel from both sides of the board.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
Mark out and cut the mortises in the top to receive the tenons on the end pieces.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
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
It is carved entirely by means of a jackknife, and the sighting bars are also whittled to shape and mortised permanently into the frame.
From Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Bedini, Silvio A.
The two sills are joined together by four stout yellow pine corner posts, which in turn are mortised into both sills.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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 Agricola, Georgius
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 Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
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 Zerbe, James Slough
His machines, and subsequent improvements by others, for boring, mortising and turning, display wonderful ingenuity.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
This will necessitate care in mortising and tenoning the side rails so as to get good fits for the shoulders The bevel square will be needed in laying out the shoulders of the tenons.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
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 Parton, James
