TENON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenon mean? 

• TENON (noun)
  The noun TENON has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TENON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tenon" is a kind of...):

projection (any structure that branches out from a central support)

Holonyms ("tenon" is a part of...):

mortise-and-tenon joint; mortise joint (a joint made by inserting tenon on one piece into mortise holes in the other)