verb
definition
To cut a mortise in.
definition
To join by a mortise and tenon.
definition
To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters; to kern.
adjective
definition
Having or using a mortise.
example
The mortised joint was very strong.
Examples of mortised in a Sentence
It consists of two thick trunks placed upright, their upper ends mortised into a horizontal log which projects beyond them at either side.
The platform itself was usually composed of rough layers of unbarked stems, but occasionally it was formed of boards split from larger stems. When the mud was too soft to afford foothold for the piles they were mortised into a framework of tree trunks placed horizontally on the bottom of the lake.
They were fixed by the butt in a socket of stag's horn, mortised into a handle of wood.
The remains of the stockade round the margin were of vertical piles mortised into horizontal bars, and secured by pegs in the mortised holes.
The eastern upright was mortised into position and had an external lateral brace to the base plate.
The fence is made of split chestnut, with the lower rail mortised into the ' godfathers ', and the upper rails nailed.
Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I had borrowed other tools by this time.
This includes cleft or riven fencing, and mortised fencing using sawn rails.