mortise-and-tenon joint

Questions about mortise-and-tenon joint

What does mortise-and-tenon joint mean?

mortise-and-tenon joint means "a joint made by inserting tenon on one piece into mortise holes in the other".

What is another word for mortise-and-tenon joint?

Close synonyms include mortise joint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mortise-and-tenon joint a common word?

mortise-and-tenon joint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.