Dictionary Entry
mortise
mortise is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2transitive verb
To cut or make a mortisein.
- 3transitive verb
To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
- 4noun
a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint
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- 5verb
join by a tenon and mortise
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- 6verb
cut a hole for a tenon in
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