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tenon

[ten-uhn] / ˈtɛn ən /


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Instead, posts and beams were fitted together with mortise and tenon joints.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2020

Woodwork with mortise and tenon joints, original and restored hardware and tile-faced fireplaces are found throughout the nearly 6,000 square feet of living space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

Thick hand-hewn oak beams connected with slotted and tabbed mortise and tenon joints provide the bones of the building, which has deliberately been left unfurnished to showcase its construction.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2015

"You can get good at the mortise and tenon joints but without the spark to power your tool in the first place, you can't make the table."

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2013

I see new words that sound cool like dado and kerf and tenon and mortise.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine

The timbers were fastened together by the mortice-and-tenon method; holes called mortices were cut, into which the tongues or tenons of other pieces would then fit.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

As a rule three bands from which the ornamental work springs constitute the hinges, which have rings outside the hanging stiles fitting on to vertical tenons run into the masonry or wooden frame.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

Judges, lawyers and spectators recoiled in dismay, and it is believed that the pins and tenons which confined the roof were seriously strained.

From The History of Peru by Henry S. Beebe

And he would have put some life into those iron tenons.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin

The framework seems to be connected by means of tenons and mortices, while the scrolls are welded together.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.

All of the rails should be tenoned into the posts thoroughly, even if the lag screw fastenings are used.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

The lower horizontals or stretchers are to be tenoned through the posts and keyed.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

The posts are to be tenoned on the upper ends.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

I will not quote Walt Whitman and say his feet were tenoned and mortised in granite, but they were well planted on the soil—and sometimes mired in clay.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard

The cabin had been built for many decades—built of white oak, hewn, morticed and tenoned.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort

In Thicket, 1990, his intersections run free variations on the notching, lapping and tenoning of practical carpentry in order to generate a curved form with straight balks of pine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Make the doors, tenoning the rails into the stiles and grooving both to receive the mullioned framework of 3/16-in. stuff.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

The carpenter's shop is likewise supplied with necessary machine tools, such as saws, planers, tenoning machine, whittlers, etc., the power being furnished by the machine shop.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various

The method of mitreing the moulding and tenoning the stile to rail is indicated.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham

This will necessitate care in mortising and tenoning the side rails so as to get good fits for the shoulders The bevel square will be needed in laying out the shoulders of the tenons.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor


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