dovetailed
- noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
Origin of dovetailed
dovetail
- a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- a joint formed of one or more such tenons fitting tightly within corresponding mortises.
- Carpentry. to join or fit together by means of a dovetail or dovetails.
- to join or fit together compactly or harmoniously.
Origin of dovetail
Related Words for dovetailed
harmonize, conform, coincide, jibe, correspond, accord, square, join, tally, unite, interlock, go, agree, match, mortise, sync, tenonExamples from the Web for dovetailed
Contemporary Examples of dovetailed
The cellphone use among pedestrians has dovetailed insidiously with hyper-gentrification, Moss says.
The End of New York: How One Blog Tracks the Disappearance of a Vibrant CityTim Teeman
August 6, 2014
“I think the Old-Fashioned craze has also dovetailed with a lot of drinkers coming back to whiskey,” Simonson says.
Obama's message was narrowly about peace, but it dovetailed with Molad's.
The segment was called “Swinging in the Suburbs,” and it dovetailed with a Newsweek cover story I wrote on unfaithful women.
Historical Examples of dovetailed
It is designed to make the dovetailed tongue as well as the groove.
Carpentry for BoysJ. S. Zerbe
The dovetailed ties are just as sound now as on the day of their insertion.
I have never been able to understand how every bit has dovetailed with such exactness.
The Blind SpotAustin Hall
Away with the mechanism of the polished, dovetailed, machine-made play of Dumas.
IconoclastsJames Huneker
We had cut across the 180th meridian, where time is dovetailed.
The Pacific TriangleSydney Greenbie
dovetail
- a wedge-shaped tenon
- Also called: dovetail joint a joint containing such tenons
- (tr) to join by means of dovetails
- to fit or cause to fit together closely or neatlyhe dovetailed his arguments to the desired conclusion