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  • noun Plural form of mortise.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mortise.

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Examples

  • Another thing which is confusing to the beginner in his efforts to lay out the mortises is the irregular placing of the rails.

    Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 1891

  • The graphics promo package and toolkit was produced in HD 720p, and includes opens, transitions, mortises, endpage toolkits, custom backplates, and artwork produced for ESPN. com

    ESPN Hoops Package breaking this week « Art & Business of Motion 2009

  • They supported four thick planks firmly held by mortises.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • In most cases the wood members in these old wood buildings are held together by tenons and mortises or dowels, that let the wood pieces shrink and expand without damage to the integrity of the building except for minor cracks in plaster walls.., unlike staples in studs and plywood/ OSB sheets that can pop out.

    The urban age: how cities became our greatest design challenge yet « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

  • The shipwrights had made a new living thing from these felled trees, and now her sheathing and pegs swelled in the water, her mortises and tenons strained, and she moaned.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • It hurt to be playing that sloppily, because the course had an old-land feeling I love, its holes fit into the natural landscape like neatly chiseled tenons into their mortises.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • The shipwrights had made a new living thing from these felled trees, and now her sheathing and pegs swelled in the water, her mortises and tenons strained, and she moaned.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • It hurt to be playing that sloppily, because the course had an old-land feeling I love, its holes fit into the natural landscape like neatly chiseled tenons into their mortises.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • It hurt to be playing that sloppily, because the course had an old-land feeling I love, its holes fit into the natural landscape like neatly chiseled tenons into their mortises.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • It hurt to be playing that sloppily, because the course had an old-land feeling I love, its holes fit into the natural landscape like neatly chiseled tenons into their mortises.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

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