Both pieces of the timber are mortised and the inserted tenons are secured into the widest piece.
The illustrations indicate how the cross bar and end bar are mortised into the leg.
No such work as this can be pointed out in our London workshops, but patterns and arabesques, both of wood and ivory, are occasionally let into solid beds of wood so deeply, as to be actually mortised into the main body of the structure.
The upper sleighs are coupled on the old-fashioned short reach plan except that the reach is not mortised into the roller.
Grindstone frames are best made of wood 3" x 4" thoroughly mortised together and well braced with wooden braces and tied across with plenty of iron rods.
The base is the same but the mast turns on a gudgeon stepped into an iron socket mortised into the center timber.
Bernard says that the red and the blue blocks of the initials, [p457] each engraved on a separate piece of wood, were made to fit each other, so that the red block should fit accurately in the mortised blue block.
The peculiar workmanship of the unknown printer and of Albert Pfister shows that the types were taken direct from the case and wedged in the mortised blocks of wood which served for chases.
Galleys, or trays of wood to keep in place the composed types, were not known; the types were placed line after line, perhaps letter by letter, in the mortised block of wood which served for the chase.
It seems that the pages of types were fastened in a mortised block of wood of the same height as the types.
The remains of the stockade round the margin were of vertical piles mortised into horizontal bars, and secured by pegs in the mortised holes.
The box was nicely mortised against another previously deposited, and as there remained an interstice between it and that at its feet, an infant's coffin made the space complete.
The flies seem an Egyptian plague, and get mortised into the oily butter, which holds them like birdlime.
The frame is formed by the two side pillars or walls a, a, which are mortised into the bottom b, b; and are firmly fixed to it by braces.
In each of these a lateral arm e, is mortisedin an oblique direction; a cross bar f, unites both arms.
The frame-work A A of the mill is made of wood or cast iron, strongly mortised or bolted together; and strengthened by the two cross iron bars B, B.
It consists of a strong frame made of oak carpentry, with tenon and mortised joints, bound together with strong bolts and screw nuts.
All the joints are mortised except the division bars at the top.
Framing details] Referring to the accompanying sketch (Plan A) it will be noticed that the corner posts and centres were not mortised into the sills, but were simply butted on and heavily nailed or spiked.
Into the hard conglomerate of the hill the town is built; house walls and precipices mortised into one another, dovetailed by the art of years gone by, and riveted by age.
Rising from enormous substructures mortised into the solid hillside, it rears its vast rectangular bulk to a giddy height above the town; airy loggias imposed on great forbidding masses of brown stone, shooting aloft into a light aërial tower.
Here they formed the apex of a cone, and were all together mortised into a large piece of beechwood, and secured, for the present, with ropes, in a temporary manner.
They were placed 7 feet apart, and formed a roadway of 6 feet in breadth between the rails, which was strongly bound in a lateral direction with cross framing mortised into the principal beams, and otherwise fixed with screw-bolts.
In the second place, the cross-stone of the Tongan trilithon is mortised much more deeply into the uprights than are the cross-stones at Stonehenge.
The tops of both are deeply mortised to receive the cross-stone, the ends of which are sunk into them instead of being laid flat on the top.
The ends of the supports may be mortised into the side pieces or secured by means of gains.
This makes a very rigid article of furniture, if mortised and tenoned and properly glued.
In dwelling-house work they should be mortised and tenoned together, as should be the pieces connecting therewith.
Such bolts may be mortised or otherwise, as desired.
The logs that went toward the building of their home were mortised and pinned together with wooden pegs.
Two block houses, each twenty-eight feet square with two stories and a basement were built with heavy mortised logs.
In the secondary beams, where they are laid on the fourth wall, are mortised the lower ends of the same number of rafters as those in a set of rafters[5] opposite them.
In the place of the nave it has a thick barrel, in which are mortised the lower ends of the spokes, just as their upper ends are mortised into the rim.
From the upright timber near the upper small cross-beam, which at its other end is mortised into the crane-post, are two mortised bars.
The boards of the fan are mortised into the quadrangular parts of the barrel axle.
Into the ends of the cross-beams facing the second long wall, are mortised the ends of the same number of rafters inclined toward the posts which stand vertically upon the second long wall.
The ends of the thwarts were mortised into the gunwales and also secured by lashings.
The bed upon which the timber is placed to be mortised is gibbed to a sliding frame, which allows it to be set to any position, with the chisel straight or at an angle.
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.
To bring the outer edge of the shoulder in very close contact with the mortised timber, the cutters are for some work followed by what is termed a cope head, which is a head carrying two cutters bent forward as in Fig.
Illustration: Large italic letters are sometimes mortised at the corners, instead of kerned, to allow the next letter to fit close.
The deck beams are not quite so stout as the ribs and are mortised into the upper edge of the gunwales a little below the level of the deck.
Above these beams a narrow batten runs fore and aft amidships from cockpit to stem and stern, mortisedinto the two beams at the cockpit, and lashed to the others with whalebone.
The bars are elliptical in section, flattened, and have their endsmortised into the rim.
Their ends are mortised into the lower edge of the gunwale and fastened with wooden treenails.
They are spread apart by cross pieces or floor timbers, flat rather broad boards laid across the keelson with their ends mortised into the bilge streaks.
The ends were often bent up as in the Tatar bow, and were sometimes separate pieces mortised on.
Here it is mortised into the under side of a trapezoidal block of wood, widest and thickest on the inboard end, and concaved off on the under face, to a thin edge outboard.
An equal number of stout wooden arches half the height of the posts are mortised into the runners, each arch a little in front of each pair of posts.
By noon the mortised logs had been gathered into a great pile, ready to be thrown up into a roomy building, and the men went in to dinner.
All buildings in Bushwhackers’ Place were constructed of logs mortised at the ends.
The cross construction of the frame also prevents warping, since, in the best construction every joint is mortised and tenoned.
The sides of the tenon and of the mortise are called "cheeks" and the "shoulders" of the tenon are the parts abutting against the mortised piece.
According to the method of application, as rim locks, which are fastened on the surface, and mortise locks which are mortised into the edge of a door or drawer or box.
The tighter it fits without danger of splitting the mortised member, the stronger will be the joint.
In the best construction this frame is mortised and tenoned together and within this frame there is set a thin board or panel which is free to shrink or swell but is prevented from warping by the stiffer frame.
It is used in strong doors and also where the mortised member is already in place so that a wedged mortise-and-tenon is impossible.
A tenon should not be so large as to weaken the mortised piece.
Hence the tenon is narrowed on the outside enough to insure strength in the mortised piece.
This line will be the inside of the hole for the wedge, and the 1/16" is deducted to make sure that the key wedges against the mortised member.
The shoulder of any tenon may be undercut so as to allow the edges of the tenoned piece to close up tight against the mortised piece.
The object of this form is to weaken the mortised member as little as possible but at the same time to increase the strength of the tenon.
The tenon does not extend thru the mortised member and the cheeks of the tenon may be cut on two or four sides.
But enough of the tenon is left full width to fill up the groove at the outer end of the mortised piece.
In the latter case the back strip may have a short barefaced blind tenon which is mortised into the upright, Fig.
Ends of top piece secured to uprights by being mortised or halved and bolted together.
Upright and top piece are mortised or halved and bolted together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
