Crossword clues for dovetailed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dovetail \Dove"tail`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dovetailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dovetailing.]
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(Carp.)
To cut to a dovetail.
To join by means of dovetails.
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To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.
He put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed . . . that it was indeed a very curious show.
--Burke.
Wiktionary
(context heraldry English) A wavy line in the form of triangles, resembling a dovetail. v
(en-past of: dovetail)
Usage examples of "dovetailed".
Spring came: quiet, unspectacular and after many false starts: hailstorms and high winds dovetailed with days of unwintry peace.
It dovetailed with my considered opinion that Langford Jennings should make the first public statements about you.
The structure was another of the council’s repair projects, lengths of genuine fresh timber had been dovetailed into the original seasoned planking.
The floor and roof beams were harandrid timbers, sturdy lengths dovetailed and pegged together as only a master carpenter could manage.
That worldwithin-a-world dovetailed with Curtis Hanson's crime fixation.
Uncle Jack's movie-biz fixation dovetailed with Curtis's ambition to grow up and become a filmmaker.
As he did so he wondered if all these events and conversations had actually dovetailed in this fashion, or whether his memory was collecting fragments from different nights and days, knitting them together so that they appeared seamless.
She'd forgotten how his and Clem's natures had dovetailed, before sickness had taken the piss and vinegar outofTay.
Is it a coincidence this program dovetailed with the completion of the HAARP installation?