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Mortised

Mortise \Mor"tise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mortised; p. pr. & vb. n. Mortising.]

  1. To cut or make a mortise in.

  2. To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.

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mortised
  1. Having or using a mortise. v

  2. (en-past of: mortised)

Usage examples of "mortised".

On the outside or in front of these singular habitations are rows of holes mortised into the face of the cliffs about the doors.

No material is used but riqimite, mortised and tenoned like wood, or set in exquisitely fitted blocks and courses.

From these clear coverts high and cool I see How every time with every time is knit, And each to all is mortised cunningly, And none is sole or whole, yet all are fit.

But I could see, by straining my sight to the uppermost, that even though those rocks had not been mortised into place by any form of binder, they seemed to stand secure.

The ripping off of the shelter that has kept out a thousand storms, the tearing off of the once ornamental woodwork, the wrench of the inexorable crowbar, the murderous blows of the axe, the progressive ruin, which ends by rending all the joints asunder and flinging the tenoned and mortised timbers into heaps that will be sawed and split to warm some new habitation as firewood,--what a brutal act of destruction it seems!

You could eventually pound a breach in it, but it was harder than mortised stone.

My glim showed me the keyhole, and I cut the lock, which was mortised into the thickness of the door, clean away, taking a square which gave ample margin beyond the edges of the lock.

May the keel of the new vessel lay along the dockyard, and soon the stem and stern-post, mortised at each of its extremities, rose almost perpendicularly.

Kids were in town from all over the northern counties to compete on these intricately mortised masterpiece alleys, dating back to the high tide of the logging business in these parts, when the big houses framed all in redwood had gone up and legendary carpenters had appeared descending from rain-slick stagecoaches, geniuses with wood who could build you anything from a bowling alley to a Carpenter Gothic outhouse.

John is built on a steep sidehill, from which it would be in danger of sliding off, if its houses were not mortised into the solid rock.