Crossword-Solution: TENON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TENON | anagram | ETNON, NETON, NONET, TENNO, TONNE |
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Sentences with TENON (5)
Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear.
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.
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.
Tenon commenyon...............................What do you want? Sinachkoo.....................................To drive the devil away.
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.
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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).