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Mortise   Listen
verb
Mortise  v. t.  (past & past part. mortised; pres. part. mortising)  
1.
To cut or make a mortise in.
2.
To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.





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"Mortise" Quotes from Famous Books



... day to carry him up into the blue—with their longitudinal spars of ash or hickory, their ribs of light wood, their interior bracing of piano wire, their other bracing wires, and their wing covering. He saw the workmen prepare all the material for mortise and tenon work, saw them attach the tension wires, fit in the ends of poles, and finally connect together all the parts of an airplane,—wings, rudders, motor, landing frame, body. As a painter grinds his ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux


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


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