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Dowel   /dˈaʊəl/   Listen
noun
Dowel  n.  (Mech.)
1.
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
2.
A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.
Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels.
Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n., 1.


verb
Dowel  v. t.  (past & past part. doweled or dowelled; pres. part. doweling or dowelling)  To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.





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"Dowel" Quotes from Famous Books



... seasoning; is not durable in contact with the soil or if exposed. Hickory excels as wagon and carriage stock, for hoops in cooperage, and is extensively used in the manufacture of implements and machinery, for tool handles, timber pins, harness work, dowel pins, golf clubs, and fishing rods. The hickories are tall trees with slender stems, never forming forests, occasionally small groves, but usually occur scattered among other broad-leaved trees in suitable localities. The following species all contribute more or ...
— Seasoning of Wood • Joseph B. Wagner
... the Beams to be sided 5 inches, and moulded 5 inches, and regularly spaced, and not more than three feet from Centre to Centre, with two 1 inch dowels in each end, instead of dovetailing into the shelf-piece, with a 5/8 inch bolt through each dowel, and an inch and quarter hole bored in the end of all the Beams 10 inches in, and another from the under side to meet it, then seared with a hot Iron to ...
— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton
... influence in the same direction as the writings of Wycliffe. It is a vision and an allegory, wherein the vices of the time, especially those of the clergy, are unsparingly dealt with. Towards the close it loses itself in a metaphysical allegory concerning Dowel, Dobet, and Dobest.[17] I do not find much poetry in it. There is more, to my mind, in another poem, written some thirty or forty years later, the author of which is unknown, perhaps because he was an imitator of William Langland, ...
— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald


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