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  • n  a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint

  • He shows how to design and build a flying buttress, cast a bell in bronze, use the mortise-and-tenon method on the roof beams.
  • The Japanese package is no less an aspect of the country's cultural heritage than the design of a "stolen view" garden or the traditional cutting of a mortise-and-tenon joint in a .
  • On the forehead was the tenon hole which had held the stolen vulture-head coronet, symbol of queenly power.
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  • Animal Shelter on 3-Day Quarantine for Parvo
    According to shelter director Sarah Tenon, it will be quarantined for three days because of Parvo.
    July 9, 2013 - 13 WMAZ Macon
  • Ga. animal shelter quarantined in wake of virus
    MACON, Ga. (AP) — A middle Georgia animal shelter has been quarantined after five puppies were euthanized in response to the spread of a highly contagious virus. Macon-Bibb Animal Welfare Shelter Director Sarah Tenon tells WMAZ-TV (http://on.wmaz.com/12hqyPE) the dogs were euthanized to prevent Parvo virus from spreading. The virus can take two forms and either attack a dog's intestines or its ...
    July 9, 2013 - WDEF Chattanooga
  • Virus Quarantines Macon-Bibb Shelter
    A middle Georgia animal shelter has been quarantined after five puppies were euthanized in response to the spread of a highly contagious virus. Macon-Bibb Animal Welfare Shelter Director Sarah Tenon said the dogs were euthanized to prevent Parvo virus from spreading. The virus can take two forms...
    July 9, 2013 - Georgia Public Broadcasting

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