Mortise

['mɔːtɪs] or ['mɔrtɪs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint.

(verb.) cut a hole for a tenon in.

校對:马里恩--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

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解釋/意思:

n. a cavity cut into a piece of timber to receive the tenon a projection on another piece made to fit it: stability power of adhesion—also Mor′tice.—v.t. to cut a mortise in: to join by a mortise and tenon.

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