Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mortice

1 sense of mortice

Sense 1
mortise, mortice -- (a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint)
       => hole -- (an opening deliberately made in or through something)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb mortice

2 senses of mortice

Sense 1
mortise, mortice -- (cut a hole for a tenon in)
       => cut -- (separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope")

Sense 2
mortice, mortise -- (join by a tenon and mortise)
       => join, bring together -- (cause to become joined or linked; "join these two parts so that they fit together")