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n. A usually rectangular cavity in a piece of wood, stone, or other material, prepared to receive a tenon and thus form a joint.

n. Printing A hole cut in a plate for insertion of type.

v. To join or fasten securely, as with a mortise and tenon.

v. To make a mortise in.

v. Printing To cut a hole in (a plate) for the insertion of type.

v. Printing To cut such a hole and insert (type).

n. A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint

v. To make a mortise.

v. To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters; to kern.

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.

v. To cut or make a mortise in.

v. To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise.

n. A hollow cut in a piece of wood or other material to receive a corresponding projection, called a tenon, formed on another piece in order to fix the two together.

n. Figuratively, stability; power of adhesion.

To join by a tenon and mortise; fix in or as in a mortise.

To cut or make a mortise in.

v. cut a hole for a tenon in

n. a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint

v. join by a tenon and mortise

"The mortise is the rectangular hole cut to receive the tenon and is made slightly deeper than the tenon is long."

mortised    mortises    mortising   

cut    hole    join    bring together   

chase mortise    mortise-and-tenon joint   

mortised    mortising   

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