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

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

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 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

A thin slab will be cut in the stone blocks that make up the staircase, and the portrait will be fitted in and secured with stainless steel dowels.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2023

Using little more than modeling clay and a set of soft, eraser-like dowels, Ms. Gatliff transformed unknown skulls into eerily lifelike busts.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2020

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

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 William Noyes

The machines cut and sewed and trimmed and planed and doweled and assembled, but apparently none of them was up to the fine art of spitting tacks.

From The Servant Problem by Robert F. Young

For example, in assembling framed pieces that are doweled, it is well to glue the dowels into one set of holes beforehand, making tenons of them, as it were.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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 James Slough Zerbe

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 William Noyes

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

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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

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 John T. Schlebecker

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

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

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

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