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Mortice

verb
1.
Cut a hole for a tenon in.  Synonym: mortise.
2.
Join by a tenon and mortise.  Synonym: mortise.






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"Mortice" Quotes from Famous Books



... floor are two rooms—a front room used by deceased for a bedroom, and a back room which he used as a sitting-room. The back room has been left open, with the key inside, but the window is fastened. The door of the front room is not only locked but bolted. We have seen the splintered mortice and the staple of the upper bolt violently forced from the woodwork and resting on the pin. The windows are bolted, the fasteners being firmly fixed in the catches. The chimney is too narrow to admit of the passage of even a child. This room, in ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill



Words linked to "Mortice" :   bring together, mortise joint, mortise-and-tenon joint, cut, hole, join



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