A mortise lock (also spelled mortice lock in British English) is a lock that requires a pocket—the mortise—to be cut into the edge of the door or piece...

A mortise and tenon (occasionally mortice and tenon) joint connects two pieces of wood or other material. Woodworkers around the world have used it for...

Mortise or mortice may refer to: Mortise and tenon, a woodworking joint Ankle mortise, part of the distal tibia joining the talus bone to form an ankle...

(timber), such as a mortise in a mortise and tenon joint. The square chisel mortiser (also called hollow chisel mortiser), similar to a drill press in many...

A mortise gauge or mortice gauge is a woodworking tool used by a carpenter or joiner to scribe mortise and tenon joints on wood prior to cutting. Mortise...

techniques was the fixed mortise and tenon joint. A fixed tenon was made by shaping the end of one timber to fit into a mortise (hole) that is cut into...

principle. Butt hinge / Mortise hinge Any hinge designed to be set into a door frame and/or door is considered a butt hinge or mortise hinge. A hinge can also...

plafond and the two malleoli is referred to as the ankle "mortise" (or talar mortise). The mortise is a rectangular socket. The ankle is composed of three...

its bevelled edges. Mortise chisel thick, rigid blade with straight cutting edge and deep, slightly tapered sides to make mortises and similar joints....

construction technique relied extensively on structural support provided by peg-mortise-and-tenon joinery through the shell of the boat. This method of ship construction...

a woodworking joint, similar to a mortise and tenon, in that a tenon is cut on the end of one member and a mortise is cut into the other to accept it...

driven into a hole bored through two (or more) pieces of structural wood (mortise and tenon). The use of wood as a tenon can be traced back over 7,000 years...

The Domino is a loose mortise and tenon joining tool manufactured by the German company Festool. First introduced in 2005, it came to the US market in...

receive the latch assembly, typically by routing or chiseling a shallow mortise. Some commercially-sold doors may come prepared to receive one or more...

that connect the tibia and fibula in the lower leg, thereby creating a mortise and tenon joint for the ankle. High ankle sprains are described as high...

free-standing but consists of vertical posts placed in the ground, having holes (mortises) in each side into which the roughly pointed ends of split rails (usually...

punicana) is a locked mortise and tenon wood joinery technique used in shipbuilding to fasten watercraft hulls. The locked (or pegged) mortise and tenon technique...

intersect the mortise. For example, if one looked in the mortise, one might see part of one horizontal pin at the bottom of the mortise and a part of...

adhesives, while others use only wood elements (such as dowels or plain mortise and tenon fittings). The characteristics of wooden joints—strength, flexibility...

to lay out mortise and tenon joinery. Setting a marking gauge to 15mm Illustration showing a marking gauge in use A mortise gauge A mortise gauge being...

required with dowel and mortise and tenon joints. Does not require any complex mathematics or measurements, such as those used in mortise and tenon joints....

Tiller Construction Boat building Careening Carvel built Clinker built Mortise and tenon Lashed-lug Sewn-plank Shipbuilding By region: Egypt Rigging Crab...

joined by being slipped into mortises after the beams are in place such as a chase mortise (pulley mortise), L-mortise, or "short joist". Also, in some...

to fix the nuts tightly between small intersecting twigs, akin to the mortise-tenon joint in carpentry. Because squirrels cannot digest cellulose, they...

gears had wooden cogs, each tooth forming a type of specialised 'through' mortise and tenon joint More recently engineering plastics and composite materials...

dried and compressed wood, usually beech, which is installed in matching mortises in both members of the joint in a similar fashion to a loose or floating...

is a hand tool used for green woodworking. It is used for chopping out mortises when timber framing, or making smaller pieces such as gates. It combines...

joints, commonly and originally with lap jointing, and then later pegged mortise and tenon joints. Diagonal bracing is used to prevent "racking", or movement...

etymology of the name comes from the resemblance between the tenon or mortise of the joint to the shape of a dove's tail . In Europe, the dovetail joint...

in Ostrov, Czech Republic, and one built using split oak timbers with mortise and tenon and notched corners excavated in eastern Germany, dating from...