Punch for one Italian plumber abusing tenet (10)
I believe the answer is:
marionette
'punch' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'one italian plumber abusing tenet' is the wordplay.
'one italian plumber' becomes 'mario' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'abusing' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'abused' mean this).
'tenet' is an anagram of 'nette'.
'mario'+'nette'='MARIONETTE'
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for marionette that I've seen before include "Pinocchio say" , "Puppet on strings" , "being manipulated by others" , "One has strings pulled" , "one that needs stringing up" .)