dowel
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Rockler sells these as part of its $2.49 Hinge Dowel Repair Kit.
From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2019
Adams 19-Inch Wooden Rolling Dowel, which is the runner-up in our guide to rolling pins, is hulking in comparison and seemed to intimidate the kids—none of them wanted to try it.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2019
On his father's side, Quayle's family ran the Chicago Dowel Co., which produced Lincoln Logs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Dowel, dow′el, n. a pin of wood or iron inserted in the edges of two adjacent boards for the purpose of fastening them together.—v.t. to fasten by means of dowels.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
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