dowel

American  

[dou-uhl] / ˈdaʊ əl /

noun

1. Also called dowel pin.  Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.

2. a piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a masonry wall to receive nails, as for fastening woodwork.

3. a round wooden rod of relatively small diameter.

4. Dentistry. a peg, usually of metal, set into the root canal of a natural tooth to give additional support to an artificial crown.

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verb (used with object)

doweled, doweling, dowelled, dowelling

1. to reinforce or furnish with a dowel or dowels.

dowel British  

/ ˈdaʊəl /

noun

1. Also called: dowel pin.  a wooden or metal peg that fits into two corresponding holes to join two adjacent parts

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Other Word Forms

• undoweled adjective

Etymology

Origin of dowel

1300–50; Middle English dowle < Middle Low German dovel plug; compare German Döbel, Dübel, Old High German tubili