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Mortise
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
(2):
(n.) A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
(3):
(v. t.) To cut or make a mortisein.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mortise'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/mortise.html. 1828.