mortise - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'mortise' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Mortise

[ n.]

- A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.

2 . Mortise

[ v. t.]

- To cut or make a mortisein.
- To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.

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