dowel

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

Most of them look more fabricky, or almost like a wood or metal dowel that has fabric on the end of it .

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2021

The oft-recommended dowel and tapered pins from J.K.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

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

The first, Spherae, is a ball-shaped cushion supported by three polished wood dowels that slide through a brass disc and lock into place.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

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

Mr. Blaine — he changed his name soon after he began drumming professionally — used the dowels of a kitchen chair as his first set of sticks.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2019

And I lifted the top and tilted the drum so he could look in at the two dowels.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Noyes, William

The way we've made that panel, Gus, with those end cleats doweled on and the shellacking of both sides—it'll never warp.

From Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio by Whipple, Wayne

The frame is of the same thickness, with mortise and tenon joints doweled together.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

The Top.—The top should be made of three boards, either tongued and grooved, or doweled and glued together.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by Zerbe, James Slough

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

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 Noyes, William

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

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

All these things went into colonial furniture, so beautifully cut, so carefully dowelled and put together, so well made, that many of the things have become heirlooms in the families for which they were constructed.

From Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples by Wheeler, Candace

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 Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)

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

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

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 Noyes, William

These instruments consist of two pieces of wood dowelled together with twenty holes that taper from 7/16 inch to 3/16 inch.

From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by Schlebecker, John T.

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 Fairham, William

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 Wheeler, Candace