Translation for 'mortice' from English to French

mortice and tenon joint

assemblage {m} à tenon et mortaisetech.

• The mill has a log frame and uses mortice and tenon construction.
• Based on a paterae block (an ornamental device) and mortice openings in the floor, uncovered during conservation works, together with documentary evidence, one room has been fitted with hammock frames.
• The house is built with stone foundations, and the main structure is made of oak timbers, joined using mortice and tenon joints, and held in place with oak pegs.
• The tenon of the cross-shaft still lodges in a square mortice at the centre of the octagon, but the rest has gone.
• For example, upper and lower vertical rods added to one door and connected to the leaf with no rods via a mortice latch.

• Locksmith Valerie Olifent states that, "The doors of many historic churches still carry an old wooden lock although often you find that a modern 5-lever mortice lock has been installed alongside it to meet insurance requirements."
• Joints are mortice and tenon or pegged. Storage spaces at the north end of the skillions are accessed by double doors across the skillions.
• In recent years, dual key cutting machines have come on to the market, enabling cutting of both mortice and cylinder keys on one machine.
• Usually a timber horizontal beam was tied into a fork in a tree or scarfed in, using an axe to mortice it in.
• The meticulous mortise and tenon jointing was broken to allow for the removal of the frame and few if any mortice and tenon joints survive.

• The post to the southwest corner of the house has the mortice and tenon joints that were part of the earlier 1878 verandah structure.
• It has a post and sapling unlined frame, held together in a variety of methods, including wire and string ties, nails and rudimentary mortice and tenon joints.
• Evidence of the earlier balustrading exists in the mortice holes to the north-eastern verandah post.
• 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.
• A corner chisel is a tool for cutting sharp internal corners in wood, often used for mortice joints or hinge rebates.

• The simplest stool was like the Windsor chair: a solid plank seat had three legs set into it with round mortice and tenon joints.
• Some rustic furniture makers use mortice and tenon construction; others simply nail or screw members together.