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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

The vertical joints are plain butt joints; tongue and groove joints give trouble by the tenons cracking off in the planes of the joints.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

There are four spokes, each two palms wide and a palm and a digit thick; their length, excluding the tenons, being two feet and three digits.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

Lay out and cut the mortises for the tenons of the horizontals or rails.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

The flooring of this bridge, like that of many others in the county, is formed of thick planks, which are kept firm in their places by tenons, or rather wedges of wood. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber

Each was roughly squared with the adze and planed and tenoned.

From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

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

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 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

Hall had thick steel plates dovetailed together; and angle irons tenoned at the corners.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

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

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

Next prepare the two wide and the four narrow crosspieces, tenoning them to fit the mortises already cut in the legs.

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

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

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