Several men with ropes and ladders had now ascended the upper part of the rood, while the young man before mentioned stood at the foot, and alternately applied a crow and axe to cut away the mortice in which the base rested and prise it out.
Penn's piston for oscillating engines has a single packing ring, with a tongue piece, or mortice end, made in the manner already described.
The valve rod is three fourths of an inch in diameter, and the mortice is connected to the valve rod by a socket 1 inch long, and 1-1/8 inch diameter, through which a small cutter passes.
The use of a rim lock obviates the necessity of forming a mortice in the thickness of the door which is required when a mortice lock is used.
Large cleats, or also pieces of oak passing through a mortice in the rail, and answer the purpose of timber-heads for belaying ropes to.
The tenon is cut dovetail shape, and a long mortice permits the wide part of the tenon to go through, and it is secured with wood wedges.
To frame a building in this way it is necessary to cut all the pieces and make all the mortice holes on the ground, and then fit them together and raise a whole side at a time or at least one storey of it.
We have seen the splintered morticeand the staple of the upper bolt violently forced from the woodwork and resting on the pin.
The inspector and the sergeant testified that the key was in the lock when they saw it, though both the mortice and the bolt were broken.
These are made of two pieces of wood--say sixteen inches long and two inches square--cut a mortice 1/2in.
As this neck and mortice business is very difficult of manipulation, I will direct you how to cut the end of neck so that a perfect fit may be obtained in the body of violin where was cut the mortice previously, fig.
The principal parts of the frame are commonly put together with the mortice and tenon; and the bottoms are composed of cane, flags, or a peculiar kind of rush.
The joints are made to fit not only by the accuracy of the work, but by the application of glue previous to the union of the parts; this is especially the case with the mortice and tenon.
The wooden shaft has a mortice in front near the top, and a cam on a revolving horizontal shaft enters this mortice at every revolution.
Their junction is after the manner of tenon and mortice; the tenon being at the fore end of the land-side and the mortice being at the inside of the mould-board and near its point.
Tennon at forward end to fit into a dovetailed mortice on the inside of that part which is cast with the mould-board.
The tenon and mortice are joggled, or dove-tailed together in the casting operation, so as to make them hold fast.
Then the significance of the mortice lock in the wardrobe door occurred to him, and he stopped, drew the door to behind him, and with his wire locked it.
To lock the tenon in the mortice two methods may be employed.
In the first and preferable one the mortice is tapered, as in Fig.
Mortice chisels are made thicker than either the paring or the firmer because of their being longer and requiring rougher usage.
The mortice for the partition should be turned out before the half-spherical recess, the mortice being temporarily plugged with wood to render easy the operation of turning.
In this case, a zigzag mortice is made clear through each half of the box, its size and shape being that of the required partition.
The wedge h is operated by a pedal l, and secured in its highest position by a bolt j, received in a mortice made in the plate i, the bolt being operated by a pedal m.
When the mortice is away from the end of the work the breadth B of the tenon is made less than the breadth F of the work so as to leave stuff at A to strengthen the mortised piece.
This Machine is usually laid on a bench or tressel, with a long morticein it, into which the feather x of this Machine enters so as to be firmly fixed.
It consists of a tumbler e, placed in a mortice in the end of the plate g, and kept to a given position by the pressure of the spring i.
Similarly, it is disastrous if mortice and tenon joints are sawed apart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
