What does "mortise" mean?
Mortise: To cut or make a mortisein.
Additional senses
- 2.To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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