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  • verb Present participle of mortice.

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Examples

  • The big electric machines are ranged around the walls: a morticing machine, a pillar drill, a circular saw, a bandsaw and a plane.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The chisels lie in neat rows, the set squares fit snugly under brass clips, and the morticing tools nest in their niches.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The big electric machines are ranged around the walls: a morticing machine, a pillar drill, a circular saw, a bandsaw and a plane.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The chisels lie in neat rows, the set squares fit snugly under brass clips, and the morticing tools nest in their niches.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • "Doctor's bin post – morticing the prisoner what was flogged this morning, sir," said Troke, "and we're cleanin 'up."

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • Their descendants, the literary men, still go on with the process, morticing their verbal formulas together, and, before the power of the finished spell, trembling with delight and awe.

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • Their descendants, the literary men, still go on with the process, morticing their verbal formulas together, and, before the power of the finished spell, trembling with delight and awe.

    Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

  • Another, the youngest man in the Works, came to them without any trade at all and in a destitute condition, but when I saw him was in charge of a morticing machine.

    Regeneration Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Furniture wile consist of thre beds and bedding one bedstead one tabel and workstand six or eight chairs crockery ware &c. Tooles and machinery as follows 1 planing machine 1 upright boaring machine 1 circular saw, irons for an upright saw morticing machine 1 turning lathe and belting 1 doz of hand screws 1 copper pot to make varnish in, two dimejons 3-5 gls. each for varnish and oil tooles for cutting bench screws &c likewise 1 cow 3 cosset sheep 1 yew & 2 wethers the cow 11 years old and little lame in one foot otherways a veryry good cow, also

    Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

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