mortise
noun
a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
mortice
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a variation of
mortise.
Example Sentences
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In cutting the mortice, first fasten the piece so that it will rest solid on the bench.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
Those principally used are the following: lap, fished, scarf, notching, cogging, dovetailing, housing, halving, mortice and tenon, stub 387 tenon, dovetailed tenon, tusk tenon, joggle, bridle, foxtail wedging, mitre, birdsmouth, built-up, dowel.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Large cleats, or also pieces of oak passing through a mortice in the rail, and answer the purpose of timber-heads for belaying ropes to.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
If a mechanic is employed, the Balloon Frame can be put up for forty per cent. less money than the mortice and tenon frame.
From Woodward's Country Homes by George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
The wooden shaft has a mortice in front near the top, and a cam on a revolving horizontal shaft enters this mortice at every revolution.
From Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining by John S. (John Shertzer) Hittell
