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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mortice .
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Examples
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All the beams of the oak-framed hut have been morticed and pegged together by Cameron, who built it.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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All the beams of the oak-framed hut have been morticed and pegged together by Cameron, who built it.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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It was hard to believe that something so simple could be so tasty, a creamy potato flavour that was concentrated by long slow cooking in olive oil, seasoned with the sweet tang of long cooked onions all morticed with beaten eggs.
At My Table 2007
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It was hard to believe that something so simple could be so tasty, a creamy potato flavour that was concentrated by long slow cooking in olive oil, seasoned with the sweet tang of long cooked onions all morticed with beaten eggs.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Whereupon Gargantua, fearing lest the child should hurt himself, caused four great chains of iron to be made to bind him, and so many strong wooden arches unto his cradle, most firmly stocked and morticed in huge frames.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Whereupon Gargantua, fearing lest the child should hurt himself, caused four great chains of iron to be made to bind him, and so many strong wooden arches unto his cradle, most firmly stocked and morticed in huge frames.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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My Men mowed the Black Grass and Barley at the Beach, came home and split all the Red Cedars into Posts and morticed some of them.
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Sullivan morticed after having assisted Burrell to get in all his fresh Hay.
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He came to watch, and his face continued expressionless as she after a survey of the grain bins, which were in truth of solid maple, or morticed and glued boards, screwed at the corners, but so big that one would have more than filled the wagon, took her knife; and using the little blade loosened screws until the boys could turn them with their fingers.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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He said the lumber was carefully selected, the boards being heavier than usual, and all the important timbers, instead of being nailed, were morticed and dove-tailed.
A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Thomas Dykes Beasley
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