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  2. Mortise and tenon - Wikipedia

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    Mortise and tenon joints are strong and stable joints that can be used in many projects. They connect by either gluing or friction-fitting into place. The mortise and tenon joint also gives an attractive look. One drawback to this joint is the difficulty in making it because of the precise measuring and tight cutting required.

  3. Phoenician joint - Wikipedia

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    A Phoenician joint (Latin: coagmenta punicana) is a locked mortise and tenon wood joinery technique used in shipbuilding to fasten watercraft hulls.The locked (or pegged) mortise and tenon technique consists of cutting a mortise, or socket, into the edges of two planks and fastening them together with a rectangular wooden knob.

  4. Phoenician shipwrecks of Mazarrón - Wikipedia

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    Mortise and tenon joints strengthened with dowels, as used in the construction of the hulls of triremes. According to Tejedor, the Mazarrón I shipwreck combines pegged mortise-and-tenon joinery with longitudinal stitching. Tenons were spaced closer in lower hull sections and wider in upper sections, where stitching was used to fasten planks ...

  5. Ankle - Wikipedia

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    The talocrural joint is the only mortise and tenon joint in the human body, [9]: 1418 the term likening the skeletal structure to the woodworking joint of the same name. The bony architecture of the ankle consists of three bones: the tibia , the fibula , and the talus .

  6. Joining technology - Wikipedia

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    The joining technology is used in any type of mechanical joint which is the arrangement formed by two or more elements: typically, two physical parts and a joining element. The mechanical joining systems make possible to form a set of several pieces using the individual parts and the corresponding joining elements.

  7. Ancient shipbuilding techniques - Wikipedia

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    Assembling a ship hull's planks by mortise and tenon joint strengthened with dowels. This construction technique relied extensively on structural support provided by peg-mortise-and-tenon joinery through the shell of the boat. This method of ship construction appears to have originated from the seafaring nations of the Mediterranean, although ...

  8. The Clitoris And The Body - The Huffington Post

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    From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.

  9. Clinker (boat building) - Wikipedia

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    In the first few centuries AD, several boat and ship-building systems existed in Europe. In the Mediterranean, flush-planked hulls were produced by edge-to-edge joining of the hull planking with mortise and tenon joints. This was a shell-first technique [c], which started with a keel, stem and stern-post, to which planking was added.