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n. A projection on the end of a piece of wood shaped for insertion into a mortise to make a joint.

v. To provide with a tenon.

v. To join with a tenon.

n. 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.

v. To make a tenon

n. 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.

v. To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.

n. A portion of a block of stone from which a work of sculpture is cut, allowed to remain as a temporary or permanent support.

n. 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.

n. a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint

"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.""

tenoned    tenoning    tenons   

projection   

shoulder of a tenon    mortise-and-tenon joint   

tooth    tusk   

tenon saw   

projection    dovetail    cog    dowel   

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