Definition of "tenoning" []

• Present participle of tenon. (verb)

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• "I use a Delta mortising attachment on the drill-press, a Delta tenoning-jig on the table saw and a matched-set of panel cutting bits on the router table for the cabinet frames and doors."
• "But doweling is cheaper and quicker than tenoning, and there are many places in wood construction where it is just as satisfactory and, if properly done, just as strong."
• "Although the floors were still hollow, there was a better distribution of material, the joists being deeper, of longer span, and resting upon the beams, thus avoiding the pernicious method of wasting lumber, and guarding against fracture by tenoning joists into the upper side of beams."