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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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
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
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 parts to this frame are thoroughly mortised and tenoned together.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I 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
It is intended that the short pieces shall be tenoned into the long ones.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 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
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
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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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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