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
When the teeth of a wheel are inserted in mortises or slots provided in the wheel-rim, it is termed a mortised-wheel, or a cogged-wheel, and the teeth are termed cogs.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Cut the tenons on the ends of the shelf to fit the mortises in the end pieces, numbering each one so the parts can be put together with the tenons in the proper mortises.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
These mortises need not be deep if the joints are to be reinforced later with lag screws as is the clock shown.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
These mortises bonded the blocks with the mass concrete backing.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
The shanks, being correctly sawn, may then be fitted to the mortises, and let in within 1⁄8 of butting down on the face of the wheel, this amount being left for the final driving.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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
First, the ground sill is a square of 20 ft., made of yellow pine sticks mortised together and pinned with stout trunnels.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
The two sills are joined together by four stout yellow pine corner posts, which in turn are mortised into both sills.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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 Georgius Agricola
Mortising Puzzle.—The ordinary mortising exercise is, after the first two or three attempts, generally voted as uninteresting, but, although the simple puzzle shown in Fig.
From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
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
Had they owned an auger or a mortising chisel, or even a good gimlet, the thing would have been easy enough.
From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid
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 Noah Brooks
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
