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.
mortised
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past participleof mortise.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof mortise.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
mortisenouna notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
Example Sentences
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There was the strange commercial released by his loyal sponsor Nike, in which a rigor mortised Mr. Woods received counsel from the disembodied voice of his late father, Earl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2010
Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full of grade A qualities.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the mortised piece were forced downward until it broke off the tenon at the shoulder, that would be shearing across the grain.
From Wood and Forest by William Noyes
It was far stronger than the one in the galley cabin, and had been set within the wood and mortised so that only a small, flat keyhole showed.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
Above the roof of the chamber there are mortised into the upright axle the ends of two beams which rise obliquely; the upper ends of these beams support double cross-beams, likewise mortised to the axle.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
