[dou-uh
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noun, verb, -eled, -el⋅ing or (especially British) -elled, -el⋅ling.| 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. |
| 5. | to reinforce or furnish with a dowel or dowels. |
| dow·el (dou'əl) n.
[Middle English doule, part of a wheel, perhaps from Middle Low German dovel, plug, or from Old French doele, barrel stave (diminutive of douve, from Late Latin doga, vessel, from Greek dokhē, recepticle, from dekhesthai, to take; see dek- in Indo-European roots).] |