Mortise

Definition:

• (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.
• (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.

Compare mortise with other words:

amortise vs. mortise

mortise vs. portise

mortise vs. mortised

kern vs. mortise

joint vs. mortise

hole vs. mortise

mortise vs. tenon

mortise vs. stake