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Cog :: Cog (n.) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.

Mortise :: Mortise (v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder..

Tenant Saw :: Tenant saw () See Tenon saw, under Tenon..

Tenonian :: Tenonian (a.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist..

Tusk :: Tusk (n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth..

Coak :: Coak (n.) A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers..

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

Tenon :: 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..

Drawbore :: Drawbore (v. t.) To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon..

Coak :: Coak (v. t.) To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces..

Cog :: Cog (n.) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface..

Backsaw :: Backsaw (n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

Relish :: Relish (n.) The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece..

Countergage :: Countergage (n.) An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made..

Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc..

Joiner :: "Joiner (n.) A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc..

Tenon :: Tenon (v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber..

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through..

Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc..

Pin :: Pin (n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint.

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