mortise

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

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

Iron rod threaded through three rusted loops, old mortise lock with a rusty cam.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

This insures getting the mortises all the same height.

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

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

I—Timber joined in the mortises of the posts.

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

They are suitable for filing out keyways, mortises, &c., and for these purposes should have at least one safe edge.

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

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

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 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

These cross-bars should be carefully mortised into the frame as shown in the small diagram in center of figure three.

From Woodcraft by E. H. (Elmer Harry) Kreps

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

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

They both laughed and fell to work again, the boy explained his notions of the difficult art of mortising.

From The Ship of Stars by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

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

From Bucholz and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton