mortise
Pronunciation
  • enPR: môrtĭs, môrtəs, IPA: /ˈmɔː(ɹ).tɪs/, /ˈmɔː(ɹ).təs/
Noun

mortise (plural mortises)

  1. (woodworking) A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint. [from 14th c.]
  2. Stability; power of adhesion.
Translations
  • French: mortaise
  • German: Einsteckschloss, Zapfenloch
  • Italian: mortasa
  • Russian: вы́емка
Verb

mortise (mortises, present participle mortising; past and past participle mortised)

  1. (transitive, woodworking) To cut a mortise in.
  2. (transitive, woodworking) To join by a mortise and tenon.
  3. (typography) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters; to kern.



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