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Dowel   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.





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"Dowel" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Well, M'Dowel, mark-me,—I neither can, nor will, overlook neglect in these matters. The man that neglects them wilfully, is a man I won't depend upon—and two of your neighbors were absent from parade on Wednesday week. Now, it's really too bad to expect that I, or any other gentleman in the ...
— Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... of the harp, Metres and rhymes that fail to dowel, Willing to turn from pains so sharp To some soft labour ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 • Various
... projections other than a molded sill, as on the Morris house, while a stone lintel or brick arch must replace the ornamental head, often such a pleasing feature of wood construction. The frames were of heavy construction held together at the corners by large dowel pins and were ornamented by suitable moldings broken around the reveals of the masonry and by molded sash guides in the frame. In the earlier brick houses the square-headed window openings had either ...
— The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia • Frank Cousins
... of the dramatist's discovered rules: "If you use a property once use it again and again if you can." It is a visual thing that binds together your stuff of speech like a dowel ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: In Mizzoura • Augustus Thomas


Words linked to "Dowel" :   joggle, dowel pin, fastener, fixing, fastening, holdfast


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