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

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

Table Complete The shelf should be finished on the top side and the four edges, and the corners cut out to fit the mortises in the table legs.

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

The top back board has a tenon on each end that fits into the mortises in the back posts and is rounded at the top as shown.

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

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

Again, mortises, tenons, dovetails, and joinery of all sorts, no longer demand from hand-work the accuracy, neatness, and perfection of former days.

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

Each of these sills is mortised into each of three cross-beams, of which one is at the right side of the shaft, the second at the left, and the third in the middle.

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

The mother-of-pearl slide which runs along a mortised groove further protects the hair on the outside of the nut.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" 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

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.

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

I did not progress as fast as a carpenter would have done with his mortising chisel, or a cooper with his breast-bit or auger; but I had the gratification of knowing that I was progressing.

From The Boy Tar by Edward Read

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

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