tenon
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈtɛnən/
- Specialized
- Make sure the tenon fits snugly into the mortise to ensure a strong joint.
- mortise and tenon
- tenon joints
- cut the tenon
Examples
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As he stares at the hundreds of oak tenons, each about the size of a credit card, jutting out from the ship's keel like wooden teeth, Di Donato shakes his head in disbelief.
Academic text (2002) -
Look at all the mortise and tenon joinery!
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You know what mortise and tenon is?
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It's all mortise and Tenon and oak pegs.
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They'll take up any gaps in that mortise and Tenon joint and make sure it's tight.
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Here I didn't even use tenons, I just went with a glued butt joint and that will be just fine.
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I chose Domino's or floating tenons for the joinery to speed things up a little.
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Each required 78 mortise and tenon joints as well as a series of complex glue-ups, which made gluing up a dovetailed case piece seem like child's play.
Blog text (28) -
You can see from the video that it is driven by a waterwheel which uses precisely the same 'three-tusked cams', or lifting arms, fixed with tenons, that are evident in one of Bessler's drawings.
Blog text (12) -
The concrete images in my framework are the mortise and the tenon—terms that are normally used in cabinet-making and terms that presuppose a human creator (writer).
Academic text (1991)
Compounds
- Specialized
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8.2
A strong wood connection where a peg on one piece fits into a hole in another piece
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tenon comes from Old French and the Latin root tenere, which means 'to hold', the same root you see in words like retain and contain. A tenon is the small piece of wood made to fit into a matching hole and 'hold' the parts together, so the origin explains why it is the holding part of a joint.