What is the meaning of Mortise?

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(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.
(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.

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