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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.
verb (used with object)
5.
to reinforce or furnish with a dowel or dowels.
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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English dowle < Middle Low German dovel plug; compare German Döbel, Dübel, Old High German tubili
1300–50; Middle English dowle < Middle Low German dovel plug; compare German Döbel, Dübel, Old High German tubili
Related forms
un·dow·eled, adjective
un·dow·elled, adjective
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Word Origin & History
dowel
early 14c., dule "rim or section of a wheel," perhaps akin to M.L.G. dovel "plug, tap" (of a cask). Modern meaning is first attested 1794.
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