Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A projection on the end of a piece of wood shaped for insertion into a mortise to make a joint.
- transitive verb To provide with a tenon.
- transitive verb To join with a tenon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A portion of a block of stone from which a work of sculpture is cut, allowed to remain as a temporary or permanent support.
- noun The projecting end of a piece of wood or other material fitted for insertion into a corresponding cavity or mortise in another piece, in order to form a secure joint. See cuts under breechpin, dovetail, and mortise.
- To fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
- To join by or as by a tenon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
- noun (Carp. & Join.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf.
tooth ,tusk . - noun a saw with a thin blade, usually stiffened by a brass or steel back, for cutting tenons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a
mortise , and in this way secure together the parts of a frame. - verb To make a tenon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A tusk tenon or shoulder tenon_, Fig. 267, is one in which the tenon proper is quite thin but is reinforced by a thicker shoulder called a "tusk."
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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A hole is bored lengthwise through the head to admit the tenon, which is fastened by a pin of hard wood, three-tenths of an inch in diameter, passing transversely through the head and tenon.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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The projection is called the tenon, and the cavity the mortise.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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The mortise is the cavity hollowed to fit the tenon, which is the end of the interlocking beam, shaped to fit smoothly into the mortise.
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a tenon, which is fitted into a mortise that is dug through some growing tree, or other, of those which generally abound convenient to the tobacco house, something more than five feet above the platform.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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"cheeks" and the "shoulders" of the tenon are the parts abutting against the mortised piece.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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In the latter case the back strip may have a short barefaced blind tenon which is mortised into the upright, Fig. 278.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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Browning claims eternity as the due of every man, however mean; and if Whitman feels his foothold 'tenon'd and mortised in granite', it is because he can 'laugh at dissolution' and knows 'the amplitude of time'.
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Mark each mortise directly from the tenon which is to fit into it, taking care to have all the rails an equal distance from the floor.
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Lay out the mortises in the legs, taking the measurements directly from the tenon which is to fit that mortise.
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