Definitions for dovetails

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dovetails dove·tail

Spelling: [duhv-teyl]

IPA: /ˈdʌvˌteɪl/

Dovetails is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 741 anagrams from letters in dovetails (adeilostv).

Definitions for dovetails

noun

1. a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
2. a joint formed of one or more such tenons fitting tightly within corresponding mortises.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Carpentry. to join or fit together by means of a dovetail or dovetails.
2. to join or fit together compactly or harmoniously.

Origin of dovetails

First recorded in 1555-65; so named from its shape

Examples for dovetails

In place of the grooves the cavity may be of the dovetail form.

Fig. 41 shows a "Tee Halving Joint" with a dovetail cut on the edge.

When dressed off, it gives the appearance of a dovetail on each face.

Your acid experiences also seem to dovetail with expanding your musical consciousness.

This dovetail is half blind, so that the joint will not appear when the drawer is shut.

And the overriding issue of the election—the economy—happens to dovetail with the issues that concern New Hampshire Republicans.

The novel is structurally daring, managing to dovetail the perspectives of both boys.

Set the bevel-square at the proper angle for a dovetail, Fig. 250.

With a fine tenon or dovetail saw, cut the saw kerf as at Fig. 316.

Only it was hard for the child to dovetail the two halves of her life.