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

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

The mortises are first dressed out to a uniform size and taper, using two templates to test them with, one of which is for the breadth and the other for the width of the mortise.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

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 Low, David Allan

The mortises can be laid out and cut, or they can be left until the tenons are all made and then marked and cut directly from each tenon.

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

Cut them to fit the mortises in the posts, also rabbet the back rails for the backing.

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

The latter are six feet long and just large enough to fit closely into the mortises.

From Home Pork Making by Fulton, A. W.

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

Further, with regard to the double cross-beams which are mortised to the lower part of the main axle, to each end of them there is mortised a small piece of wood four feet long.

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

The house which stood among the mists was of squared timbers, mortised and fitted.

From The Land of Strong Men by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)

This consists of two beams fifteen feet long, three palms wide, and two thick, mortised into the crane-post, and they protrude a cubit from the back of the crane-post and are fastened together.

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

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 Brooks, Noah

In order to obviate this inconvenience, I designed an arrangement of a key-groove mortising machine.

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel

At present, mortising and dowelling have come to the front as proper processes, especially for table-building; and this time the style appears under the name of "Mission furniture."

From Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples by Wheeler, Candace

After this the chiseling out or mortising can be proceeded with.

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

The thinness of the plates renders any mortising in the shelf unnecessary, and the small intervals between the perforations in the strips enables the whole space occupied by the shelves to be used most economically.

From The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Humphreys, Arthur Lee