What is to join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder called?
mortise — To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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