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

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

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

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 H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

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 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

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 logs were mortised into each other at the corners; openings were left for the doors and windows.

From Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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

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

For this purpose a rather small chisel of the kind known among cabinet makers as a mortising chisel will be required.

From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick

The strips are crossed at the corners of the boxes by mortising each piece one half of its depth at the proper place—one from above and the other from below—and dovetailing the cross pieces together.

From Type Cases and Composing-room furniture by A. A. Stewart

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

These are 4 by 4 in. pieces of wood, hard pine preferred, planed and securely set up in the X-pieces by mortising into the same.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

In the highest class of furniture where loose cushions are used, the seat base is formed by solidly mortising a frame together on which is woven a heavy cane seating.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor