TENON

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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)

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb tenon