Peg used for fastening two adjacent parts of a structure

Usage examples of dowel.

I had bought the dowel to make a set of lie-detecting amulets and never got around to it.

Besides the farm work we had to look after the hardwood flooring mill that summer and the white-birch dowel mill.

The old Squire gave him another job at the dowel mill and stationed his brother, Asa Doane, a strictly temperate man, at the spring.

Once they were back afloat, Ghart would replace the dowel with an actual lock, but at the moment, no lock was needed, since there were no weapons inside the locker.

He carefully unwrapped her fingers from the dowel before she stuck it in his eye.

The bartender nodded and reached under the bar and brought up a wooden dowel with a key tied to it with a piece of frayed string.

After a moment she moved down across the grass to her car while Paul Arnussen turned his back with calm deliberation and went on fitting dowels into the wooden railing.

The fine white-birch dowels were first turned round on small lathes and afterwards into little bugle and bottle-shaped ornaments, then dyed a glistening black and strung on linen threads.

Her wares hung in pairs by their joined wicks from long dowels on a rack.

He stood, and walked slowly through the room, looking at all she had: paintings, a gold patterned scarf pinned on the wall, a Japanese wedding kimono hung on wooden dowels, photos in antique picture frames.

The heads for both barrels were also laid out- single round sections, rather than sections of quartersawn wood doweled in place.

He hefted a piece of doweling and squinted down its length, then carried the wood up the porch stairs to a small table saw.

The one on the highest level had a small wooden deck jutting out over part of the rockery, and the lowest level residence had a ground-hugging porch, whose slender doweled pillars looked nearly too fragile to support the floor of tike third, mid-level apartment above it.

Handcarved pine gates on thick doweled posts capped with verdigrised iron the kind of hard, waxed pine you see on Buddhist temples and the counters of sushi bars.

Above him, where his body had turned, facedown, to float like the hugest of turds, I affixed the seat with new dowels.