different between rabbet vs tenon

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æb?t/
• Rhymes: -æb?t
• Homophones: rabbit

Etymology 1

From Middle English rabeten, from Old French raboter, rabouter (“to thrust back”, verb), from Old French re- + boter, bouter.

The noun is from Middle English rabet, from Old French rabot, from the verb.

Noun

rabbet (plural rabbets)

1. A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of a plank of wood or other material; especially, one intended to fit another member to form a joint.

Translations

Verb

rabbet (third-person singular simple present rabbets, present participle rabbeting, simple past and past participle rabbeted)

1. (transitive) To cut a rabbet in a piece of material.

Translations

Derived terms

• rabbeted
• rabbet joint
• rabbet plane

Etymology 2

Noun

rabbet (plural rabbets)

1. Obsolete form of rabbit.
   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar

     I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a fryar.

Anagrams

• barbet

English

Etymology

From Middle English tenoun, tenown, tenon, from Anglo-Norman tenoun, from Old French tenon.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n?n

Noun

tenon (plural tenons)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• tenon saw

Translations

See also

• mortise-and-tenon joint

Verb

tenon (third-person singular simple present tenons, present participle tenoning, simple past and past participle tenoned)

1. (transitive) To make into a tenon.

   First we'll tenon this part, then we'll make a mortise that will fit it on that part.

2. (transitive) To fit with tenons.

Anagrams

• Tenno, nonet, tenno, tonne

French

Etymology

From ten(ir) +? -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?n? ?/

Noun

tenon m (plural tenons)

1. tenon

Further reading

• “tenon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (tén?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?te.no?n/, [?t??no?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?te.non/, [?t???n?n]

Noun

ten?n m (genitive tenontis); third declension

1. (anatomy) A tendon, nerve

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• tenon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French tenon.

Noun

tenon

1. Alternative form of tenoun

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin ten?n.

Noun

tenon

1. Alternative form of thenoun