tenon
noun
a projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
tenoned
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past participleof tenon.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof tenon.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
tenonnouna projection formed on the end of a timber or the like for insertion into a mortise of the same dimensions.
Example Sentences
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The cabin had been built for many decades—built of white oak, hewn, morticed and tenoned.
From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort
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
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
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
A slip-joint or end or open mortise-and-tenon is what would remain if a mortised member were sawn off along one side of the tenoned member.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
