mortise
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Traditional names for the woodworks’ joints, such as “gooseneck mortise” and “two-stop tenon,” sound a little like Jazz Age cocktails or dance crazes.
From New York Times
Instead, posts and beams were fitted together with mortise and tenon joints.
From Washington Post
“The protruding tenons are clearing visible and the corresponding horizontal lintel stone would have had mortise holes for them to slot into. A bit like early Lego!”
From Fox News
The uprights and the lintels, both made of local sarsen stone, were locked together by means of a joint more commonly used in woodwork – the mortise and tenon.
From The Guardian
If not, then you may have to set the hinge plate deeper in its mortise.
From Washington Post
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