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Mortise   Listen
verb
Mortise  v. t.  (past & past part. mortised; pres. part. mortising)  
1.
To cut or make a mortise in.
2.
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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"Mortise" Quotes from Famous Books



... be able to shoot and glue a four-foot straight joint, make a housing, tenon and mortise, and halved joint, grind and set a chisel and plane iron, make a 3 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in., by 1 ft. by 6 ft. dovetailed locked box, or ...
— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller
... suffer, die, and be buried. Sir R. Torkington, who published a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1517, says that "under the Mount of Calvary is another chapel of our Blessed Lady and St. John the Evangelist, that was called Golgotha; and there, right under the mortise of the cross, was found the head of our forefather, Adam." [176] Golgotha, it will be remembered, means, in Hebrew, "the place of a skull;" and there may be some connection between this tradition and the ...
— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey


Words linked to "Mortise" :   cut, mortise joint, join, hole, mortice, mortise-and-tenon joint


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