Definition of Mortising

1. Verb. (present participle of mortise) ¹

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Definition of Mortising

1. mortise [v] - See also: mortise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mortising

mortifier
mortifiers
mortifies
mortify
mortifying
mortifyingly
mortis
mortise
mortise-and-tenon joint
mortise-and-tenon joints
mortise joint
mortised
mortiser
mortisers
mortises
mortising (current term)
mortling
mortlings
mortmain
mortmains
mortmal
mortpay
mortpays
morts
mortsafe
mortsafes
mortuaries
mortuary
mortuary practice
morula

Literary usage of Mortising

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Construction and Operation of Wood-working Machines by John Richards (1872)
"In America, either through an ignorance of the difficulties to be encountered, a greater boldness in such things, or the high price of labour, mortising ..."

2. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"The Fay Car mortising, Recessing, and Boring Machine, shown in Pig. 1, is for mortising by a rotating cutter, as in heavy timbers. Both the cutting aiid the ..."

3. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"1, is for mortising by a rotating cutter, as in heavy timbers. ... 2, will not only hand wheel, the mortising bar is brought up to the timber and the square ..."

4. Woodworking Machinery: Its Rise, Progress, and Construction, with Hints on by Manfred Powis Bale (1894)
"We shall in another place notice the operation of mortising as performed by hand-power machines; we now purpose taking the larger class of mortising ..."

5. Theory of Transverse Strains and Its Application in the Construction of by Robert Griffith Hatfield (1877)
"This last formula should be modified so as to allow for the damage done to the header by the mortising for the tenons of the tail beams. ..."

6. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine (1883)
"mortising He-ami—Shouldered Tenon.—When the Space 13 not sufficient to admit of placing the cross-beam above the main beam, the connection may be made by ..."

7. A Treatise on the Construction and Operation of Wood-working Machines by John Richards (1872)
"In America, either through an ignorance of the difficulties to be encountered, a greater boldness in such things, or the high price of labour, mortising ..."

8. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"The Fay Car mortising, Recessing, and Boring Machine, shown in Pig. 1, is for mortising by a rotating cutter, as in heavy timbers. Both the cutting aiid the ..."

9. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"1, is for mortising by a rotating cutter, as in heavy timbers. ... 2, will not only hand wheel, the mortising bar is brought up to the timber and the square ..."

10. Woodworking Machinery: Its Rise, Progress, and Construction, with Hints on by Manfred Powis Bale (1894)
"We shall in another place notice the operation of mortising as performed by hand-power machines; we now purpose taking the larger class of mortising ..."

11. Theory of Transverse Strains and Its Application in the Construction of by Robert Griffith Hatfield (1877)
"This last formula should be modified so as to allow for the damage done to the header by the mortising for the tenons of the tail beams. ..."

12. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine (1883)
"mortising He-ami—Shouldered Tenon.—When the Space 13 not sufficient to admit of placing the cross-beam above the main beam, the connection may be made by ..."

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