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
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
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
The latter are six feet long and just large enough to fit closely into the mortises.
From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton
Unmortise, un-mor′tis, v.t. to loosen the mortises or joints of.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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 observatory proper, octagonal in shape, is securely mortised into the top sill and covered with a corrugated iron roof conical in shape.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
First, the ground sill is a square of 20 ft., made of yellow pine sticks mortised together and pinned with stout trunnels.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
The other ends of these two small cross-beams are mortised into an upright timber, six feet three palms long, and three-quarters wide and thick; the mortise is transfixed by wooden pegs.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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
In order to obviate this inconvenience, I designed an arrangement of a key-groove mortising machine.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
"The practices in the art of carpentry are called planeing, sawing, mortising, scribing, moulding, &c."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
To work the two went accordingly—adjusting, screwing, squaring, sawing, planing, mortising, until the dinner-bell called them to the house.
From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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.
