Crossword-Solution: TENON 5 letters, 153 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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

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TENON anagram ETNON, NETON, NONET, TENNO, TONNE

We have 153 clues for the answer “TENON”

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Beam joiner 1 answer
Board projection 1 answer
Cabinetmaker's projection 1 answer
Cabinetry insert 1 answer
Carpenter's joint component 1 answer
Carpenter's joint element 1 answer
Carpentry insert 1 answer
Carpentry insertion 1 answer
Carpentry joint component 1 answer
Carpentry joint component, perhaps 1 answer
Carpentry joint part 1 answer
Carpentry piece inserted into a mortise 1 answer
Carpentry projection 1 answer
Carpentry term. 1 answer
Companion of a mortise 1 answer
Complement of a mortise 1 answer
Component of a joint 1 answer
Construction piece with a mate 1 answer
Cut for insertion, in carpentry. 1 answer
Dovetail component 1 answer
Dovetail feature 1 answer
Dovetail joint component 1 answer
Dovetail joint part 1 answer
Dovetail piece 1 answer
Dovetail section 1 answer
Dovetail type 1 answer
Dovetail wedge 1 answer
Dovetail, e.g. 1 answer
Dovetail, for one 1 answer
Dovetailing piece 1 answer
End of a piece of wood shaped to form a mortise joint 1 answer
Fitted joint 1 answer
Fitted piece 1 answer
Fitting for a mortise. 1 answer
Half a dovetail 1 answer
Half a dovetail joint 1 answer
Half a joint 1 answer
Half of a dovetail joint 1 answer
Half of a joint 1 answer
In a dovetail, it's the "male" 1 answer
It fits into a mortise 1 answer
It sticks out in some joints 1 answer
It's inserted in a mortise 1 answer
Joiner's term. 1 answer
Joinery element 1 answer
Joining peg 1 answer
Joint projection 1 answer
Kind of auger 1 answer
MORTISE insert 1 answer
Member inserted into mortise. 1 answer
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Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
Little effect was produced at first; but just before the French Revolution, Tenon, La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, and others took up the subject, and in 1791 a commission was appointed to undertake a reform.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996
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.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
Tenon commenyon...............................What do you want? Sinachkoo.....................................To drive the devil away.
Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 Various 2000
Continue, Olivier.” The person whom he designated by this name, took the papers into his hands again, and began to read aloud,— “To Adam Tenon, clerk of the warden of the seals of the provostship of Paris; for the silver, making, and engraving of said seals, which have been made new because the others preceding, by reason of their antiquity and their worn condition, could no longer be successfully used, twelve livres parisis.
Notre-Dame de Paris Victor Hugo 2001
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 359 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).