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Example sentences for "mortices"

Lexicographically close words:
morti; mortial; mortibus; mortice; morticed; mortification; mortifications; mortified; mortifies; mortify
  1. Corresponding mortices were sunk in those stones to admit the tenons.

  2. I cut deep mortices in the trunks about ten feet from the ground, and again ten feet higher up to form a second story.

  3. Very good standards for fences may be made by cutting half mortices in the opposite sides of a squared log, 4ft.

  4. The top of the schammel is seen partly hiding the arms of the axle, underneath it; in its ends are the mortices for the rungs.

  5. If tools can be got at or used, mortices may be sunk in the masts, or fore and aft spars, and handspikes or capstan bars set upright in them at intervals of 6ft.

  6. Cut out two upright cheeks, which must be fitted by mortices to the upper surface of the stool.

  7. The mortices will then be finished with a 3/4in.

  8. Cut some tenons at the end of each exactly to correspond with the mortices shown on the sides, D D; let them be a trifle larger than the mortices, so that they will drive in tight.

  9. Tenons are formed on both ends of the posts, and seatings and mortices at 4-ft.

  10. The posts are tenoned and wedged to fit mortices in the girders.

  11. Having placed the tenons in the mortices fasten them there with screws.

  12. These ends are shaped to form what joiners call dovetails, and they should fit exactly into the mortices upon the upper edges of the runners.

  13. I cut deep mortices in the trunks about ten feet from the ground, and again ten feet higher up to form a second storey.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.