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

There are two basic types of latches: tubular and mortise.

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

These teeth, or cogs, as they are generally called, have tenons formed on them, which fit into mortises in the rim of the wheel.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by David Allan Low

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

Lay out and cut the mortises on the end pieces for the tenons of the shelf, also the tenons on the top ends and the diamond shaped openings.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

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

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

The upper ends of these posts are mortised into an upper longitudinal beam, which lies close under the rafters of the building; this upper longitudinal beam is two palms wide and one thick.

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

Both these sills again are mortised into the corner posts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

The mother-of-pearl slide which runs along a mortised groove further protects the hair on the outside of the nut.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

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

Had they owned an auger or a mortising chisel, or even a good gimlet, the thing would have been easy enough.

From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid

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

It looked something like a pickaxe with only one arm, the end of which was fashioned like a mortising chisel, and was used as an axe.

From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute

McGuire brought with him two carpet-bags, a marlin spike and a common mortising chisel.

From Bucholz and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton