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Tenon

noun

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

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mortise-and-tenon joint

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"Tenon" Quotes from Famous Books

... "To Adam Tenon, clerk of the warden of the seals of the provostship of Paris; for the silver, making, and engraving of said seals, which have been made new because the others preceding, by reason of their antiquity and their worn condition, could no longer be successfully ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

Words linked to "Tenon" : mortise joint, projection