a piece that is cut so that it sticks out from the end of a piece of wood and can be fitted into a hole called a mortise in another piece of wood to join them together
Synonyms and related words
The activity of making things from wood
carpentry
dovetail
joinery
tenon
noun countable
US /ˈtenən/
Word Forms
singular
tenon
plural
tenons
DEFINITIONS1
1
a piece that is cut so that it sticks out from the end of a piece of wood and can be fitted into a hole called a mortise in another piece of wood to join them together