2. Verb. (third-person singular of tenon) ¹
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Definition of Tenons
1. tenon [v] - See also: tenon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenons
Literary usage of Tenons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"and locked by mortises and tenons, or equivalent devices, substantially as shown
and described. " |243] There was put in evidence in the case volume 13, ..."
2. Exercises in Wood-working, with a Short Treatise on Wood: Written for Manual by Ivin Sickels (1889)
"Mai-king and cutting the tenons. 2. Gluing together the sides. ... The pieces
are now warmed, the tenons and mortices glued, the parts pressed together and ..."
3. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1811)
"... so as to adjust the rollers ; or, the sliding pieces maybe made to slide on
dovetails and tenons fixed in the moving bars of the machine. ..."
4. The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (1777)
"... or if \\ dms, (',,<, Governor moft include all the three tenons, >vt not
confounding them with one another, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"v mortices and tenons, and wrought, rebated,! sparingly decorated with mouldings.
Though tr posts, and a head, generally fixed together on a plinth, ..."
6. Rivington's Notes on Building Construction by Walter Noble Twelvetrees (1915)
"A pair of single tenons haunched, for an 11-inch bottom rail, ... The collective
width of two tenons in such a case should be slightly more than that given ..."
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