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

There are two basic types of latches: tubular and mortise.

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

All the mortises and diamond shaped openings should be marked and cut with a chisel from both sides of the board.

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

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

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

S. A round, taper shaft, strengthened above and below the mortises with iron hoops.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth

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

To the sides of the mortar above the block are fixed two upright posts, whose upper ends are somewhat cut back and are mortised to the timbers of the building.

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

If the mortised piece were forced downward until it broke off the tenon at the shoulder, that would be shearing across the grain.

From Wood and Forest by William Noyes

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

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 Candace Wheeler

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

"The practices in the art of carpentry are called planeing, sawing, mortising, scribing, moulding, &c."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

His machines, and subsequent improvements by others, for boring, mortising and turning, display wonderful ingenuity.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

To overcome this difficulty the latest types of mortising machines have a square hole-boring attachment fixed alongside the chain.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham