Now dial. Also 5 tenowre, 8–9 tenner. Corrupted form of TENON sb. Tenor-saw = Tenon-saw. Hence Tenor v.2 = TENON v.

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a. 1485.  Promp. Parv., MS. S. (1908), 476. Tenowre, knytting of a balk or odyre lyk tymbre, cenaculum.

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1747.  Hooson, Miner’s Dict., Q iij. instead of a Collar made on the Forks, we make Tenners, so that the Forks are Tennered at both ends, and the Sliders are Slotted at both Ends to receive the Forks.

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1851.  W. Anderson, Rhymes (1867), 116 (E.D.D.). You’re just as rough’s a tenor saw.

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1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., Tenner, a tenon.

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