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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

These tenons served as guides in setting the column forms, and proved to be much quicker and more accurate than points.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

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

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

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 bearer is tenoned to the back post.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

And now all the structures of the great Scripture were tenoned in his brain; so that he knew the frame of every part, but the inner meanings of more and more marvellous dimension seemed inexhaustible.

From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort

I had framed it, with my own hands, of stout tenoned logs, so that it would fit tightly to keep out the frost.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

The ends of the facings are to be tenoned and housed into the posts.

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

Its frame was made in Sixteen Hundred Ninety—mortised, tenoned and pinned.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Elbert Hubbard

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

Cogged Joints.—This differs from the regular tenoning and mortising methods, principally because the groove or recess is in the form of an open gain.

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

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

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