Translation for '
mortice' from English to French
NOUN | a mortice | mortices | |
VERB | to mortice | morticed | morticed morticing | mortices | |
SYNO | to mortice | to mortise |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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- 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.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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