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dowel

[dou-uhl] / ˈdaʊ əl /
NOUN
fastener
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By the time she folds it shut with a long wooden dowel, the flatbread is already bubbly and browned.

From Washington Times Apr. 21, 2023

Maintenance is easy, too: He just turns it with a rebar dowel and hoses it down when it's dry.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2022

No, a guy walks into a gallery, carrying a bar — a wooden dowel painted in bright stripes of color.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 2022

The dowel and tapered pins are the most straightforward, consisting of a single piece.

From Seattle Times Jul. 20, 2021

“It is the goddess Kali,” Mrs. Dixit explained brightly, shifting the dowel slightly in order to straighten the image.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The wall panels fit together with dowels, sort of like Ikea furniture, Ward added.

From Seattle Times Jan. 11, 2023

Try custom neon Lucite dowels to give it a Lite-Brite vibe, or finish the board in a lime wash paint to add texture and patina.

From Washington Post Oct. 19, 2022

It was the first house I had ever been in that did not have wardrobes, no three-piece set of veneered chipboard, that leaned precariously as the glue loosened in the dowels.

From The New Yorker Jan. 6, 2020

They spread the dough onto silicon mats, covered it in parchment paper and began to roll it smooth with wooden dowels.

From New York Times Dec. 20, 2019

Looped neatly over pegs beside each marionette was an array of dowels and paddles, strung together with thin black cord.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

Verdi Biographer Francis Toye. ¶ Its jackets are built with a doweled spine wide enough to carry lettering.

From Time Magazine Archive

The felloes were made six inches thick, and were strongly doweled together with seasoned hardwood pins; the linch pin was of hickory or ash; the thills were wood; in fact all of it was wood.

From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Alfred Henry Lewis

The Finished Library Table The table top is made of several boards which are doweled and glued together.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

If there are two drawers, the partition between them may be doweled or gained into these upper and lower stretchers.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

A doweled miter is one in which one or more dowels are inserted and glued into holes bored into the beveled edges.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The second section was brought up from Birmingham and was eventually put back together with the larger piece by a stone mason using copper tube doweling.

From BBC Oct. 5, 2022

The new supergrip glues have also been a boon to the basement Sheraton: they will hold wood joints together more durably than the most exquisite doweling.

From Time Magazine Archive

The construction may be further strengthened by also doweling the end of this stretcher into the legs.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

There is, to be sure, a prejudice against dowels on the part of cabinet-makers due, possibly, to the willingness to have it appear that doweling is a device of inferior mechanics.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

A.   Brackets of large truck-carriages are made each of two pieces, joined by a jog a, and dowelled.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

The old house had been built of the best materials, and its woodwork dowelled and mortised and tongued and grooved by men who knew their trade and had not learned to scamp their work.

From The Colonel's Dream by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

These pieces are fitted neatly to the proper size and dowelled firmly together.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

Water wylger ay wax, woneȝ þat stryede Water wildly ever waxed, abodes that destroyed, Hurled in-to vch hous, hent þat þer dowelled Hurled into each house, seized those that there dwelt.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris

In this case the bottom is raised from the floor, and may be dadoed into the bottom rails, or dowelled into them or even supported by strips attached along their lower inside edges.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

At present, mortising and dowelling have come to the front as proper processes, especially for table-building; and this time the style appears under the name of "Mission furniture."

From Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples by Candace Wheeler

The tools used in dowelling are: Brace, countersink, dowel-rounder, twist bit, try-square, marking-awl, and the usual bench tools.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham




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