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  • adjective carpentry Having one or more tenons.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tenon.

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Examples

  • The craftsmanship from Hansen Living cabinetmakers is evident in details like tenoned joints which, in addition to being beautiful, also provide superior strength and durability.

    Indelibly Green Danish Kitchen Designs Hit New York | Inhabitat 2008

  • Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, for I had borrowed other tools by this time.

    Walden 2004

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

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • Nodding to his father as he passed, Richard scrambled upstairs to the back half of the room at their top, which Dick had partitioned off in the customary way—a few planks from floor to near the ceiling, not snugly tenoned and joined like the wales of ships, but rather held together by an occasional strut and therefore full of cracks, some wide enough to put an eye to.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Nodding to his father as he passed, Richard scrambled upstairs to the back half of the room at their top, which Dick had partitioned off in the customary way—a few planks from floor to near the ceiling, not snugly tenoned and joined like the wales of ships, but rather held together by an occasional strut and therefore full of cracks, some wide enough to put an eye to.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Bridle joints have an advantage as regards appearance over the mortise and tenoned variety in cases such as Fig. 73, which shows an occasional table leg fitted to the circular top framing.

    Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham

  • The inlaid leg in this case is stump-tenoned into the top rail, and the inlaid portion of the leg is allowed to run through the rail, thus giving continuity of design.

    Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham

  • -- Fig. 333 illustrates the method of mitreing the moulded portion of a door frame where the joint is dowelled, not tenoned.

    Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham

  • After the pipe was uncovered, piles were driven in pairs on each side, 5 feet 6 inches apart, and in bents 12 feet apart; the pile-heads were then tenoned, and a cap made of two pieces of 4 by 12 in. stuff was bolted on as shown, and the bents stayed longitudinally.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various

  • Mr. John H. Robertson, of New York city, has patented an improved mat, which consists of longitudinal metal bars provided with alternate mortised and tenoned ends, and composed of series of sockets united by webs and of wooden transverse rods entered through said sockets and held therein by vertical pins.

    Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

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