Crossword-Solution: MORTISES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Furniture slots | 1 answer |
| Tenons' joiners | 1 answer |
| Tenons' partners | 1 answer |
| Term in carpentry. | 2 answers |
| Fastens securely | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with MORTISES (5)
The main stones were placed upright, and they were joined on the top by cross-stones, laid from one to another, and fastened with vast mortises and tenons.
When the day of the first raising came, and the frame slipped into the mortises so nicely, as I had foreordained that it should do, I was so happy that I could scarcely keep my secret from my mother.
Look at the nice setting of the mortises; mark how the cover fits; how smooth is the working of that spring drawer.
The wood of the mortises was more bruised than cut, as if by a blunt stone chisel."* (* Mudge "Archaeologia" volume 26.) Such a chisel lay on the floor of the hut, and by comparing it with the marks of the tool used in forming the mortises, they were found "to correspond exactly, even to the slight curved exterior of the chisel; but the logs had been hewn by a larger instrument, in the shape of an axe.
The mortises are to be one inch wide and deep, and one inch apart, to revive slats made of ash, oak, or spruce, one inch square, placed lengthwise of the couch.
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1964–2014).