Meanings of mortice in English

Sergius heard the iron bolt shoot into the mortice.

The lock shot into a mortice, so that there was no possibility of her pushing back the bolt.

We have seen the splintered mortice and the staple of the upper bolt violently forced from the woodwork and resting on the pin.

He taught his grandson how to make flies for fishing, how to mortice joints, and how to make runestones, origami figures, and kites.

Dowlas the carpenter, with considerable skill, contrived to mortice it into its former stump, and made the junction thoroughly secure by strong iron-belts and bolts.

Hand-hewn timbers, morticed and pinned together, take the place of riveted steel beams.

The man's name was John Mortice, of Natchez, Miss.

These props came all the way to the ground where they were morticed in heavy bars.

Mortices, to receive cross-pieces, were cut at proper distances, and holes were bored to admit the pins.

There are four hollow places in each platform, where the legs of the elephants were morticed into it.

Mortice - Cavity in a piece of wood or other material, prepared to receive a tenon and form a joint.

The weathercocks creaked, the tiles ground against each other, the roof timbers trembled in their mortices, and the walls shook upon their foundations.

No nails are used,-allis morticed, and so beautifully that the joints have not moved to this day, and are still almost imperceptible.

I cut deep mortices in the trunks about ten feet from the ground, and again ten feet higher up to form a second storey.

These fore-and-aft pieces were laid along the waterline, their ends entering the skids by means of mortices and tenons, where they were snugly bolted.

"Doctor's bin post-morticing the prisoner what was flogged this morning, sir," said Troke, "and we're cleanin' up."