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
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
The wheel, however, should be designed so that the mortises will not terminate in the arms of the wheel.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
She contrived to build in the bed of the stream pillars twelve feet apart, the stones of which were joined with strong iron clamps, fixed into the mortises with melted lead.
From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard
I—Timber joined in the mortises of the posts.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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
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 boards of the fan are mortised into the quadrangular parts of the barrel axle.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
The upper ends of these posts are mortised into an upper longitudinal beam, which lies close under the rafters of the building; this upper longitudinal beam is two palms wide and one thick.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
The lower ends of all of them are mortised into separate sills laid flat upon the ground; these sills are five feet long, a foot and a half wide, and a foot thick.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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 Arthur Lee Humphreys
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
It looked something like a pickaxe with only one arm, the end of which was fashioned like a mortising chisel, and was used as an axe.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute
The canvas is now tacked on the end pieces and the pieces given one turn before placing the mortising together.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
Maudslay's mortising machine, which he contrived for the Block machinery, although intended originally to operate upon wood, contained all the essential principles and details required for acting on metals.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
