Words Containing Mortise

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Definition of mortise

n. - A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
v. t. - To cut or make a mortisein.
v. t. - 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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The word mortise is a 7 letter word that has 2 syllable 's . The syllable division for mortise is: mor-tise