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Tenon

noun

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

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mortise-and-tenon joint

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... respectively. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation; Hans Sloane, the celebrated president of the Royal Society in London; Plater, the Swiss physician; Duverney, the anatomist, as well as his confrere, Tenon, lived to be octogenarians. Many men have displayed activity when past four score. Brougham at eighty-two and Lyndhurst at eighty-eight could pour forth words of eloquence and sagacity for hours at a time. Landor wrote his "Imaginary Conversations" when eighty-five, and Somerville his "Molecular ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... down of the forms, owing to the weight of some of the pieces, was done by means of special derricks. The footings were brought to within in. of grade and a tenon form of the exact shape of the channel section of the column was placed on top and filled with grout to a depth of 1 in. These tenons served as guides in setting the column forms, and proved to be much quicker ...

— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette

Words linked to "Tenon" : mortise joint, projection