dowel
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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
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
Once you’re feeling confident, St. Jean says you can graduate to a dowel or tapered pin, or even start using the center of the pin like a dowel and skip the handles altogether.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2021
But if the sculpture was in part a kind of “connect the dots” project, with clay spread from dowel to dowel, the results of different forensic artists varied widely.
From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2020
With a sharp knife, she cut the roll into paper-thin strips, unwound the strips and hung them on a rack made of slender dowel sticks, which stood before the kitchen stove.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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