tenanting

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The pieces by which this complicated machine is framed, are joined together in various places by scarfing, rabbeting, tenanting, and scoring.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

I have three strong reasons: First, as I told you, it is the only thing that will cleanse your heart of bitterness and leave it free for the tenanting of a great and holy love.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

Of the brethren, only those tenanting the cemetery are left.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

He is lightly, and, as it were, airily and but grazingly seated in, or rather flittingly tenanting an old-fashioned chair of Malacca.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

I have part of it on lease; the farmer now tenanting the premises found the whole more than he wanted, and the owner allowed me to keep what rooms I chose. 

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas