Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MOR'TISE
MOR'TISE, v.t.
- To cut or make a mortise in.
- To join timbers by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
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MOR'TISE, v.t.
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