vbl. sb. [f. TENON v. or sb. + -ING1.] a. The process of jointing or joining together with tenon and mortise. b. Furnishing with tenons. So Tenoning ppl. a., that tenons or furnishes with a tenon.
1678. Lond. Gaz., No. 1327/4. As in Plaining,… Mortessing and Tennanting, Moldings, &c.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Assembler, to unite the several pieces of a ship, as by … scarfing, scoring, tenenting, &c.
1847. Smeaton, Builder’s Man., 112. Little need be said … as to morticing and tenoning, or dovetailing.
c. attrib. and Comb. (of the vbl. sb. or ppl. a.), as tenoning attachment, a mechanical fitting for converting a molding machine into a tenon-cutter; tenoning chisel, a double-blade chisel that makes two cuts, leaving a middle piece which forms a tenon (Knight, Dict. Mech.); tenoning cutter, tenoning machine, a machine for cutting timber with a tenon.
1895. Daily Chron., 6 Dec., 1/5. Moulding Machine (4-cutter) with *tenoning attachment, band-saw, vertical spindle.
1870. Eng. Mech., 4 Feb., 498/1. For tenoning, the planing cutters … are replaced by *tenoning cutters.
1873. J. Richards, Wood-working Factories, 157. To move them backward and forward is the main labour in operating a *tenoning machine.
1881. Young, Ev. Man his own Mechanic, § 216. Tenoning and trenching machines.
