Usually means: Slot cut for inserting tenon.
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  1. mortice: Merriam-Webster
  2. mortice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mortice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mortice: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Mortice, mortice: Wordnik
  7. mortice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mortice: Wiktionary
  9. mortice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mortice: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. mortice: Dictionary.com
  12. mortice: Rhymezone
  13. mortice: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. mortice: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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(Note: See mortices as well.)

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noun:  (woodworking) Alternative spelling of mortise [(woodworking) A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint.]
verb:  (woodworking) Alternative spelling of mortise [(transitive, woodworking) To cut a mortise in.]

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