Mortise and Tenon: Othello

Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land;
A fuller blast ne’er shook our battlements:
If it hath ruffian’d so upon the sea,
What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?

Othello, II.i.9-16.

Note in Kim Hall addition:
Hold the mortise: hold their joints together. (A mortise is the socket hollowed out in fitting timbers.)

Image from Wikipedia, mortise and tenon.

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