Crossword-Solution: TENONS 6 letters, 45 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The main stones were placed upright, and they were joined on the top by cross-stones, laid from one to another, and fastened with vast mortises and tenons.

Massive sills were secured on the heads of the piles, with suitable grooves dug out of their upper surfaces, which had been squared for the purpose, and the lower tenons of the upright pieces were placed in these grooves, giving them secure fastening below.

The pillars and lintels of the outer portico, and those of the trilithons, are fitted together with the greatest skill, with tenons and mortices, a remarkable exception to the general rule with megalithic monuments.

These fore-and-aft pieces were laid along the waterline, their ends entering the skids by means of mortices and tenons, where they were snugly bolted.

Quelques meubles délabrés garnissaient la crypte; ici, un lit ou plutôt un grabat en vieux cœur de chêne, sur lequel étaient jetés différents objets de literie; là, un escabeau aux pieds tors, une table fixée au mur par des tenons de fer.