What is "dovetail"

Usage examples of "dovetail".

He got a pint of porter at the bar, cask-conditioned stuff from the nearby Dovetail community, and strolled around the place for a few minutes while he waited.

The clave called Dovetail backed right up against this green belt and was no less densely wooded, though from a distance it had a finer texture-more and smaller trees, and many flowers.

The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs outside, peering in through the lead latticework, flabbergasted that they had, through some enormous lacuna in procedure, been left on the outside, wagging their tails somewhat uncertainly, as if, in a world that allowed such mistakes, nothing could be counted on.

Violation of any of these conditions will lead to your immediate expulsion from Dovetail and the confiscation and probable destruction of the book.

Soon the trail was hemmed in between dry stone walls, which Rita said that one of her friends in Dovetail had made.

Hence arrangements have been made for you to stay in Dovetail for now.

Constable if she might have a bit of garden space of her own, and after an early phase of profound shock and misgivings, the Constable eventually pulled up a few flagstones, exposing a small plot, and caused one of the Dovetail artisans to manufacture some copper window boxes and attach them to the cottage walls.

She always spent the day reading the Primer, exploring the fields and forests around Dovetail, or visiting Harv down in the Leased Territories.

She handed him the basket of cookies and fresh fruit that she had brought down from Dovetail and sat with him for an hour, talking about the things he enjoyed talking about, until she could see his attention wandering back toward the goggles.

China for days, then weeks at a time, coming back depressed and exhausted to find solace in whiskey, which he consumed in surprisingly moderate quantities but with fierce concentration, and in midnight bagpipe recitals that woke up everyone in Dovetail and a few sensitive sleepers in the New Atlantis Clave.

From there he made his own judgments, and after some time had passed- it was impossible to know how long- his tunnel dovetailed with another that was carrying a stream of Drummers downward toward the floor of the ocean.

Spring came: quiet, unspectacular and after many false starts: hailstorms and high winds dovetailed with days of unwintry peace.

Everywhere the mercenaries looked they could see sturdy jet-black bark pillars supporting the dovetailing leaf domes.

Now all these analyses are certainly helpful, an apparent case of the visions of the novelist and the theorist happily dovetailing to mutually illuminating effect.

Despite the lack of inexpensive fasteners, they had never heard of a dado or a rabbet or a dovetail joint.