tenon

English Thesaurus

1. a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	projection,
definition	:	any structure that branches out from a central support (noun.artifact)

part meronym	:	mortise joint, mortise-and-tenon joint,
definition	:	a joint made by inserting tenon on one piece into mortise holes in the other (noun.artifact)