dowel
Also called dowel pin .Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
a piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a masonry wall to receive nails, as for fastening woodwork.
a round wooden rod of relatively small diameter.
Dentistry. a peg, usually of metal, set into the root canal of a natural tooth to give additional support to an artificial crown.
to reinforce or furnish with a dowel or dowels.
Origin of dowel
1Other words from dowel
- un·doweled; especially British, un·dowelled, adjective
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How to use dowel in a sentence
The gaping joints and dropping apart of modern dowelled work can be seen on every hand.
Woodworking for Beginners | Charles Gardner WheelerA dowelled joint might have sufficed, but it would not have the same strength.
The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration | Charles Franklin WarnerThese pieces are fitted neatly to the proper size and dowelled firmly together.
Mission Furniture | H. H. WindsorThese instruments consist of two pieces of wood dowelled together with twenty holes that taper from 7/16 inch to 3/16 inch.
The pillars are shown in Figs. 142 and 145 standing upon and dowelled to pieces of stone.
Rustic Carpentry | Paul N. Hasluck
British Dictionary definitions for dowel
/ (ˈdaʊəl) /
a wooden or metal peg that fits into two corresponding holes to join two adjacent parts: Also called: dowel pin
Origin of dowel
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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