Definitions for dowel

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dowel dow·el

Spelling: [dou-uh l]

IPA: /ˈdaʊ əl/

Dowel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in dowel (delow).

Definitions for dowel

noun

1. Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
2. a piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a masonry wall to receive nails, as for fastening woodwork.
3. a round wooden rod of relatively small diameter.
4. Dentistry. a peg, usually of metal, set into the root canal of a natural tooth to give additional support to an artificial crown.

verb (used with object)

1. to reinforce or furnish with a dowel or dowels.

Origin of dowel

1300-50; Middle English dowle Middle Low German dovel plug; compare German Döbel, Dübel, Old High German tubili

Examples for dowel

Be sure that each end is perfectly square, then glue and dowel the 2-in.

The dowel should be dipped in glue and inserted when the glue is applied to the joint.

dowel the frames to the ends of the dresser in the places indicated on the drawing.

The ends of the dowel are cut at a slope to conform to the pitch of the runners.

Loosen the two boards at the centre and place them close to the dowel.

In Figure 159, P represents a small cylinder of wood, possibly a dowel.

A-1 is the distance from the working edge of the rail to the first dowel.

Duledge was also used for dowel, the wooden pin connecting the felloes.

Bore the holes in the posts and the railing for the dowel pins.

dowel, Dobet and Dobest have two or three different meanings.