The lock shot into a mortice, so that there was no possibility of her pushing back the bolt.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
Similarly, it is disastrous if mortice and tenon joints are sawed apart.
"If You're Going to Live in the Country"
Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley
A low-browed, swarthy woman, heavily built, with the wreck of great beauty upon her, having fingers like the talons of a bird and a trap-mouth; it was not hard to see that into the rocky mortice where Richard had been cast there went some grains of flint from her.
"The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay"
Maurice Hewlett