tenon
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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
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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
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Ten′oner, a machine for forming tenons; Ten′on-saw, a thin back-saw for tenons, &c.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
No one need fear any lack of perfect security, as these ties exceed in strength any hold that tenons could have.
From Woodward's Country Homes by George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
Lay out the tenons on the ends of the front and back rails in the same manner.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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.
The stiles were the vertical boards, one of which, tenoned or hinged, is known as the hanging stile, the other as the middle or meeting stile.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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
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 posts are to be tenoned on the upper ends.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
The joints of the main frame are mortised and tenoned.
From The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Grace Rogers Cooper
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
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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
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
The carpenter frames or combines separate pieces of timber by scarfing, notching, cogging, tenoning, pinning and wedging, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" 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