Definition: mortising

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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Mortise \Mor"tise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mortised; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Mortising.]
   1. To cut or make a mortisein.

   2. To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a
      beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.