tongue-in-groove

Some coops look like barns or gazebos, with brass door handles and tongue-in-groove cedar siding.

Cooped Up: Chickens Come Home to Roost for Urbanites With a Yen for Hen Kris Maher 2011

The kitchen was a success - a spiffy galley, with a tongue-in-groove wooden ceiling, like a little boat, and oak floors we discovered under layers of cool, but irrevocably deteriorated lino.

Toast: Lindy 2007

The flooring came in packages of 7 "by 47" tongue-in-groove boards; two adjacent sides consisted of a groove, and the opposing two sides features tongues that interlocked with the grooves of the subsequent boards in the row.

What I Want, but am not Going to Get for Christmas 2009

The kitchen was a success - a spiffy galley, with a tongue-in-groove wooden ceiling, like a little boat, and oak floors we discovered under layers of cool, but irrevocably deteriorated lino.

2 and 7, Part I: 1952-1982 Lindy 2007

The kitchen was a success- a spiffy galley , with a tongue-in-groove wooden ceiling, like a little boat, and oak floors we discovered under layers of cool, but irrevocably deteriorated lino.

meme Lindy 2008

Loads about dowel pegs in holes, but about joining things by the tongue-in-groove method, nada.

God hates a fig « raincoaster 2007

It had boomed when the Jackson Lumber Company established a mill there in l895 and shipped out two million board feet of tongue-in-groove, end-matched rift flooring a day to cities in the northeast and overseas to Europe.

Bailey White: 'What Would They Say in Birmingham?' 2006

Whether you're looking at a chair or you're looking at an entertainment hutch like this, you say tongue-in-groove construction is essential.

CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2005 2005

The shingles, the tongue-in-groove paneling, the polished-pine floors are all old wood.

Slate Magazine Jodie T. Allen 2011

The floors are brick throughout, and the ceilings are tongue-in-groove wood.

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