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Mortise: A slit cut into a piece of wood to receive another part.
Mullion: The joints between single windows in a multiple window unit.
Mullion casing: An interior or exterior casing to cover the mullion joint between single windows.

 


MORTISE & TENON: a joint made between two pieces of wood where the projecting part of onepiece fits into a corresponding cutout on another. (IMAGE) ...

Mortise
A slot or rectangular cavity cut into a piece of wood to receive another part.
Mortise-and-tenon
A strong wood joint made by fitting together a mortise in one board and a matching projecting member (tenon) in the other.

Mortise and Tenon A mortised piece of timber has a hole into which the tenon or projecting
tongue on another piece of lumber is made to fit.
Mullion A vertical divider in a window.

Mortise & Tenon:
A slot cut into a piece of wood to receive a tenon of another piece of wood to form a joint.
Mosaic Tiles: ...

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But according to a report by an apparently arithmetically challenged someone called Astragal in the Architect's Journal [AJ] June 5, 2009, they reckon it could be as much as 890.

The dovetail is a mortise and tenon joint (a joint that fits two pieces of wood together tightly). The most complicated way of making corners was the full dovetail notch. Since it was so complicated, it was also the least used method.

- joint where a projection, the tenon, fits into a socket, the mortice, also mortise. (Mortice is the verb, a morticed joint is one where two members are joined by a mortice and tennon).

Flush Bolt - Sliding bolt mortised into the edge of a door or astragal that typically engages into the jamb head and sill to secure the door. Commonly used on the inactive door of a pair.

6th millennium BC - (6000 - 2000 BC) Emergence of wooden frames in Chinese architecture including the use of mortise and tenon joinery to build wood beamed houses.
7th millennium BC - Catal Huyuk in Anatolia constructed without streets.

Woodward, author of a popular plan book, Woodward's Country Homes, calculated in 1865 that the new frame cost 40 percent less than did the mortise and tenon one.

Because suitable metal fasteners were not available, early post-and-beam frames were held together by mortise-and-tenon joints chiseled out of the ends of the massive structural members.

3 kg per cm length per 2.5 mm dia
Wobble saw - A circular saw on a pair of tapered washers, making it slightly off perpendicular to the drive shaft to cut a wide herf. It is used in joinery for cutting open mortises ...

See also: Frame, Tenon, Member, House, Door

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