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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dowel
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Depending on what profile you want to achieve, you may also need to improvise with lengths of dowel or similar implements.
▪ He whacked his pants leg with the dowel.
▪ Holly was inspecting the wooden dowel on the staircase with the intensity of an archaeologist with a shard.
▪ On a panel door, avoid the jointing dowels on the centre rail.
▪ Ram a smaller length of dowel with a hollowed-out point dipped in Vaseline into it.
▪ Sandbar willows grow as straight as dowels in the gray-black mud along the banks.
▪ The dowel is gripped in a drill, and run at low speed, with a little pressure.
▪ Use connecting dowels to join beads of each section together 4.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dowel

Dowel \Dow"el\, n. [Cf. G. d["o]bel peg, F. douelle state of a cask, surface of an arch, douille socket, little pipe, cartridge.] (Mech.)

  1. A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

  2. A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.

    Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels.

    Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n., 1.

Dowel

Dowel \Dow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doweledor Dowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Doweling or Dowelling.] To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dowel

mid-14c., dule "rim or section of a wheel," perhaps akin to Middle Low German dovel "plug, tap" (of a cask). Modern meaning is first attested 1794.

Wiktionary
dowel

n. 1 A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. 2 A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from. 3 (context construction English) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may fastened to it. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fasten together with dowels. 2 (context transitive English) To furnish with dowels.

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WordNet
dowel

n. a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together [syn: dowel pin, joggle]

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Wikipedia
Dowel

A dowel is a solid cylindrical rod, usually made from wood, plastic, or metal. In its original manufactured form, a dowel is called a dowel rod. Dowel rods are often cut into short lengths called dowel pins. Dowels are employed in numerous, diverse applications including axles in toys, detents (e. g., in gymnastics grips), structural reinforcements in cabinet making, and supports for tiered wedding cakes. Other uses include:

  • As furniture shelf supports
  • As moveable game pieces (i. e., pegs)
  • As supports for hanging items such as clothing, key rings, tools, toilet roll dispensers and picture frames
  • To precisely align two objects in a dowel joint: a hole is bored in both objects and the dowel pin is inserted into the aligned holes
  • As a core to wrap cable or textiles around

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.