mortise
- n a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint
- v cut a hole for a tenon in
- v join by a tenon and mortise
- He shows how to design and build a flying buttress, cast a bell in bronze, use the mortise-and-tenon method on the roof beams.
- It leaves overlapping, mortise-type breaks with "sticky" ends.
- A chisel of the same size was used to mortise the rungs into the uprights.