Find the word definition

Crossword clues for tenoned

Wiktionary
tenoned
  1. (context carpentry English) Having one or more tenons. v

  2. (en-past of: tenon)

Usage examples of "tenoned".

The ripping off of the shelter that has kept out a thousand storms, the tearing off of the once ornamental woodwork, the wrench of the inexorable crowbar, the murderous blows of the axe, the progressive ruin, which ends by rending all the joints asunder and flinging the tenoned and mortised timbers into heaps that will be sawed and split to warm some new habitation as firewood,--what a brutal act of destruction it seems!

No material is used but riqimite, mortised and tenoned like wood, or set in exquisitely fitted blocks and courses.