mortise

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

Iron rod threaded through three rusted loops, old mortise lock with a rusty cam.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Tenons are enclosed in mortises in order that they may be better joined, and they are transfixed with wooden pins.

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

These mortises bonded the blocks with the mass concrete backing.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

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

Mark out and cut the mortises in the top to receive the tenons on the end pieces.

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

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

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

Further, with regard to the double cross-beams which are mortised to the lower part of the main axle, to each end of them there is mortised a small piece of wood four feet long.

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

Upon each end of the block stands a post, a cubit wide and thick, the upper end of which is somewhat cut away and is mortised into the beams of the building.

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

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

For this purpose a rather small chisel of the kind known among cabinet makers as a mortising chisel will be required.

From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick

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

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

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

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle