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
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
When these ends are dry slip them on the tenons on the front and back rails which are already fastened to the top and bottom boards.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
The tenons are not more than 1/2 in. long, just enough to keep the rail from turning about.
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
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
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
An oblique mortise-and-tenon or bevel-shoulder joint is one in which the shoulders of the tenoned beam are cut obliquely and its end is cut off at right angles.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The reason for this is obvious—it is a difficult matter to fit two or more pieces between fixed parts when their ends are tenoned.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
The lower horizontals or stretchers are to be tenoned through the posts and keyed.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
Where large timbers are tusk tenoned together, the tenons do not pass right through, but are cut in about 4 in. and spiked.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
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
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
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 method of mitreing the moulding and tenoning the stile to rail is indicated.
From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
