Usually means: Projection that fits into mortise.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tenon: Merriam-Webster
  3. tenon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tenon, tenon-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tenon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tenon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tenon, tenon: Wordnik
  8. tenon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tenon: Wiktionary
  10. tenon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tenon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tenon: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tenon, tenon-: Dictionary.com
  14. tenon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tenon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tenon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tenon: Rhymezone
  18. Tenon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tenon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. tenon: FreeDictionary.org
  21. tenon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. tenon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tenon, tenon-: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenon: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. TENON: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. tenon-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tenon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. tenon: Sound Alike Words
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  4. Tenon: Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TENON(S): Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
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  3. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)
  4. Tenon: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. Tenon: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.
verb:  (transitive) To make into a tenon.
verb:  (transitive) To fit with tenons.
noun:  A surname from French.

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