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·dow·eled, adjective
- un·dow·elled, adjective
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How to use dowel in a sentence
The advantage of this cradle is obvious, preventing as it does any tendency of the partly-formed dowel to slip or wobble.
Woodwork Joints | William FairhamThe template is put on the ends of the straight pole, and the dowel centres are pricked into the wood.
Woodwork Joints | William FairhamFig. 192 shows a completed dowel with a small groove running along its entire length.
Woodwork Joints | William FairhamFig. 209 shows the top portion of a table leg and a home-made dowel gauge.
Woodwork Joints | William FairhamWhen it sounds best, glue the dowel in place and allow it to dry before sawing it off and cutting the slanting part.
Manual Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop | Harris W. Moore
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
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