The complete book of trades, or, The parent's guide and youth's instructor : forming a popular encyclopaedia of trades, manufactures, and commerce, as at present pursued in England, with a more particular regard to its state in and near the metropolis : including a copious table of every trade, profession, occupation, and calling, however divided and subdivided : together with the apprentice fee usually given with each, and an estimate of the sums required for commencing business (1842)
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Printed for Thomas Tegg · leaf 125
right angles. Previous to entering upon the particular description of the various ways of connecting the several pieces together, it will be necessary to explain what is meant by the terms mortise and tenon. Mortise is the hole or bed made in a piece of timber to admit that portion of another piece… … The tenon is that part of the beam which is cut to fit into the mortise ; the flat ends of the beam on each side of the tenon are called the shoulders of tne tenon. The reader unacquainted with mechanics or carpentry, will easily perceive that this simple joint at the end of two pieces of timber,…
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