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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

Again, mortises, tenons, dovetails, and joinery of all sorts, no longer demand from hand-work the accuracy, neatness, and perfection of former days.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux

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

Each board had two tenons, joined one to another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

If the wood shrinks, or the tenons do not fit the mortises all through, or the glue is deficient, these various portions speedily come to pieces.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux

This makes a very rigid article of furniture, if mortised and tenoned and properly glued.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe

Such men feel that their footsteps are mortised and tenoned in granite; and the Power that holds the worlds in space and guides the wheeling planets, also prompts their thoughts and directs their devious way.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard

The two short posts are tenoned and mortises cut in the bottom piece for joints and these joints well glued together.

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

After the ends which were glued have set at least 24 hours, the clamps may be taken off and the other two upper rails tenoned and mortised in place.

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

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

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 illustration shows the method of tenoning the three pieces to the top rail, barefaced tenons being employed.

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

In tenoning machines, the lengths of the pieces usually operated upon render it necessary that the work should lie horizontally upon the table, while the shortness of the tenon makes an automatic feed unnecessary.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose




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