mortise

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint.

   “If there is much gauging for the same size mortise and tenon to be done, and if a mortise gauge is not handy, a simple improvised gauge for the purpose can easily be made with two pieces of wood and four or five steel sprigs…”

2. isim Stability; power of adhesion.
3. fiil To cut a mortise in.

   “A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.”

4. fiil To join by a mortise and tenon.
5. fiil To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters; to kern.