mortise
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If not, then you may have to set the hinge plate deeper in its mortise.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 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
Clamp all four pieces on a flat surface with the bottom ends even, then lay out the mortises for the rails and panels on all four pieces at once with a try-square.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
I—Timber joined in the mortises of the posts.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
The latter are six feet long and just large enough to fit closely into the mortises.
From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton
The cogs should be numbered to their places, and two of the mortises must be numbered to show the direction in which the numbers proceed.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Bore and chisel out all mortises and see that all the rails fit perfectly, before proceeding with the work.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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
There are mortised into this longitudinal beam the lower ends of upper posts three palms wide and two thick, which are six feet two palms high, exclusive of their tenons.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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
Then again, at a height of five feet above it, is another small cross-beam of equal length, width, and thickness, mortised into the crane-post.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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
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
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.
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
These included "Planing, moulding, rabbeting, grooving, mortising, and sawing, both in coarse and fine work, in curved, winding, and transverse directions, and shaping wood in complicated forms."
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
