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"Mortise" Definition

noun

A usually rectangular cavity in a piece of wood, stone, or other material, prepared to receive a tenon and thus form a joint.
Printing A hole cut in a plate for insertion of type.
A hole, groove, or slot into or through which some other part of an arrangement of parts fits or passes.
A cavity cut into a piece of material (as timber) to receive a tenon .

verb-transitive

Printing To cut a hole in (a plate) for the insertion of type.
Printing To cut such a hole and insert (type).
To join or fasten securely, as with a mortise and tenon.
To make a mortise in.

verb

To join or fasten securely.
To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise.
To cut or make a mortise in.

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