Antony Calvert said ... rigger mortice is totally correct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roy Hattersley in Good Article Shock] Reference

French windows to the patio locked with mortice door bolts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]

The door was locked and bolted with heavy mortice jobs, top and bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners] Reference

I'd disagree with rigger mortice on William Hague - I think he is very definitely electable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Howard to Step Down] Reference

The tenon and mortice should both be cut exactly, and so that they fit at right angles, firmly and securely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference

This wasn't the probe he would have chosen for the ancient mortice lock, but it was a good all-round instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modesty Blaise]

Unlike the ground floor entrances, this one had no entryphone, just the same seven-lever mortice lock as the other outside doors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadline for Murder]

As this neck and mortice business is very difficult of manipulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX.] Reference

• Fit front and back doors with a five-lever mortice deadlock - and use it!.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Fit the 2 x 6 in. sill about the posts so that the mortice on same will just clear the outside of posts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse] Reference

Hitherto no word has been said as to the arrangement of mortice and tenon, by which the Trilithons are keyed together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stonehenge Today and Yesterday] Reference

Several stones, probably copings, are cut with three mortice-joints or joist-holes, each measuring 0.15 centimetre, at intervals of 0.14 to 0.15.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference

This careful arrangement, of mortice, tenon, and toggle, has doubtless very much to do with the comparative stability of Stonehenge at the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stonehenge Today and Yesterday] Reference

Then the significance of the mortice lock in the wardrobe door occurred to him, and he stopped, drew the door to behind him, and with his wire locked it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pit Prop Syndicate] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger] Reference

"They're all mortice locks, as you know, set into the doors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Money]

Hath no more mortice than a tower of cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Mary and Harold] Reference

The mortice holes were easier to accomplish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stonehenge Today and Yesterday] Reference

3 lever mortice lock, picked with custom made 2-1 picks from www. uklockpickers.co.uk.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to An Apple a day will keep the final few burglars in business] Reference

• Fit all exterior doors with mortice bolts.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

‘No; mortice lock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Busman's Honeymoon]

1 doz 6 In mortice Locks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to and from Jefferson, 1823] Reference