dovetailed
noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
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How to use dovetailed in a sentence
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 City | Tim Teeman | August 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“I think the Old-Fashioned craze has also dovetailed with a lot of drinkers coming back to whiskey,” Simonson says.
The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again of the Old-Fashioned | Allison McNearney | June 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTObama'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.
In one form of feather key the part within the piece carried by the shaft is dovetailed as shown at (f).
An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design | David Allan Low
The pieces are firmly dovetailed together, the front being clean and the dovetailing blind.
Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects | C. V. RileyThe dovetailed bit of iron is knocked downwards and falls off, and the ring may then be lifted clear of the casting.
On Laboratory Arts | Richard ThrelfallOn this account some watches have slots dovetailed in form, being wider at the bottom, others have ruby pins of this form.
An Analysis of the Lever Escapement | H. R. PlaytnerFig. 37 is "Oblique Dovetail Halving," one side of the piece being dovetailed.
Woodwork Joints | William Fairham
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