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mortises

n. (plural of mortise English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: mortise)

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The granite blocks have accurately cut grooves and they have mortises as if they had been torn loose from the block next to them.

It had been fashioned to fit into mortises in the starboard bow, forming a gangplank for dignitaries who couldn't be expected to swarm down the sides of a warship.