🪵 A wood connector 🪵 To join wood

to tenon

8.6

To make a piece of wood that fits into a hole to join two pieces

verb
/ˈtɛnən/

Specialized

: tenonar

After shaping the wood, he tenoned the pieces together for added durability.

Examples

The carpenter expertly tenoned the legs to the tabletop, creating a strong joint.
It is an embodied knowing, mortised and tenoned into experience.

Academic text (1991)
To ensure a tight fit, she tenoned the end of the beam into the mortise of the joint.

Compounds

mortise-and-tenon joint

Specialized

1 8.2

A strong wood connection where a peg on one piece fits into a hole in another piece

Surface Forms

tenon infinitive

tenoned past

tenoned past participle

tenoning present participle

tenons third person singular

Etymology

Tenon as a verb comes from the noun tenon and the Latin tenere 'to hold'. To tenon wood is to cut a small piece that will fit into a hole and 'hold' the other part, so the origin shows the action of making the holding piece to join things together.