Tenons

Word TENONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Tenons"

What do we mean by tenons?

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.

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The word "tenons" in example sentences

The projections on the other member are called tenons or pins, and the spaces between both tails and tenons are called mortises or sockets. ❋ William Noyes (N/A)

This should be of the same width as the thickness of the tenons, which is ordinarily one-third of the thickness of the frame. ❋ William Noyes (N/A)

In most cases the wood members in these old wood buildings are held together by tenons and mortises or dowels, that let the wood pieces shrink and expand without damage to the integrity of the building except for minor cracks in plaster walls.., unlike staples in studs and plywood/ OSB sheets that can pop out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The shipwrights had made a new living thing from these felled trees, and now her sheathing and pegs swelled in the water, her mortises and tenons strained, and she moaned. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

It hurt to be playing that sloppily, because the course had an old-land feeling I love, its holes fit into the natural landscape like neatly chiseled tenons into their mortises. ❋ Roland Merullo (2009)

I started from the ground up, using a hydraulic house jack to lift giant floor joists whose tenons had rotted away, and installing heavy uprights posts made of treated lumber, to fend off the inevitable carpenter ants that are attracted to damp wood like bees to clover. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The famous bluestones from the Presceli Mountains in Wales show signs of tenons and mortice holes that have been chipped away. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

They are made from wood and the pieces appear to be laser cut so that the mortices and tenons fit precisely. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2009)

Mortices in the timbers for vertical posts had no residual signs of the tenons, and floor boarding had been carefully removed, indicating that the mill had been dismantled after it went out of use. ❋ M (2009)

Les détails sont dans le corps de cet article, en anglais, mais sachez qu'un des critères outre la motivation, entre autres! dont nous tenons compte est la langue dans laquelle vous bloguez/podcastez. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They were massive three-story affairs of post-and-beam framing, held together with hundreds of hand-hewn mortises and tenons. ❋ Papabear (2008)

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