Dowel

Quick meaning: Dowel is a noun meaning A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.

Meaning

A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To fasten together with dowels.
2. (transitive) To furnish with dowels.
3. 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.
4. (construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.

Example Sentences

A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

The wheels were solid, two half discs dowelled against the hub, and the chariots were pulled along by oxen or asses.

This twenty-four-piece starter set uses twelve thirty-six-inch-long dowels (or nine forty-eight-inch dowels) cut to these rod lengths. Lay out the cuts so you use the entire length of each dowel without any leftover scraps.

Word Forms

• dowels
• doweling
• dowelling
• doweled
• dowelled

Synonyms for dowel

Depending on context, synonyms include joggle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include joggle, peg, stud, guide, center, focused.

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