Definition of Mortises

1. Noun. (plural of mortise) ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of mortise) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mortises

1. mortise [v] - See also: mortise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mortises

mortifiedness
mortifier
mortifiers
mortifies
mortify
mortifying
mortifyingly
mortis
mortise
mortise-and-tenon joint
mortise-and-tenon joints
mortise joint
mortised
mortiser
mortisers
mortises (current term)
mortising
mortling
mortlings
mortmain
mortmains
mortmal
mortpay
mortpays
morts
mortsafe
mortsafes
mortuaries
mortuary
mortuary practice

Literary usage of Mortises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"in the patent as being used for cutting tongues, grooves, mortises, etc. Cutting grooves or mortises or tongues, by the Newton rotary disc, is merely sawing ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"order not to weaken the uprights by the mortises. From these beams run short supports to the horizontal rafters above. The roof, if it be of tile or thatch, ..."

3. The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide: Illustrated by Twenty-eight by Oliver Evans, Cadwallader Evans, Thomas Ellicott (1860)
"TO LAY OUT THE mortises FOR THE ARMS. Find the centre of the shaft at each end, and strike a circle; plumb a line through the centre at each end to be in ..."

4. Street Car Building (Stephenson Practice). by Charles Henry Davis (1901)
"199 ner-po*t Fach having : — Tenoned into the end mortises of ventilator pl secured with ... dowel-pins each To tenon into end mortises (a) of ventilator ..."

5. Bas-reliefs from the Temple of Rameses I at Abydos by Herbert Eustis Winlock (1921)
"... examples combined and applied to a structure the restoration of which is based to a very great extent on the mortises and other indications remaining on ..."

6. The American Amateur Photographer (1892)
"In the bottom of the box, opposite these grooves, are formed mortises for receiving the U-shaped shifting rod which slides in the grooves. ..."

7. Problems in Furniture Making by Fred Duane Crawshaw (1917)
"The open mortises at the top should be cut from both sides of the rail to insure a good joint. Some close-grained or hard wood should be used for this piece ..."

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