Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I had borrowed other tools by this time.
每一根木料都挖了榫眼，在顶上劈出了榫头，这时我又借到一些工具。
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About the 15th of May the keel of the new vessel lay along the dockyard, and soon the stem and stern-post, mortised at each of its extremities, rose almost perpendicularly.
Still, the cabin hovers in my imagination as a finished structure — tight and snug as a cedar chest, its timber frame pegged and mortised, and a fire ticking in the wood stove.