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It looked something like a pickaxe with only one arm, the end of which was fashioned like a mortising chisel, and was used as an axe.

From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.

"The practices in the art of carpentry are called planeing, sawing, mortising, scribing, moulding, &c."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The figures are made of small pieces of wood neatly fitted together by inlaying and mortising, without any spike of any kind.

From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Brooks, Noah

Great care must be taken that the mortising does not extend to a depth that will cause the back to be thin and weak.

From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Petherick, Horace

The thinness of the plates renders any mortising in the shelf unnecessary, and the small intervals between the perforations in the strips enables the whole space occupied by the shelves to be used most economically.

From The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Humphreys, Arthur Lee