Word Finder - dowel

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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.

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A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.

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A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.

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To fasten together with dowels.

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To furnish with dowels.

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A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

Helmets should be hung on pegs of wooden dowel or similar.

The primary difference between masquerade and Mardi Gras masks is that masquerade masks are often handheld with the wooden dowel rod.

The backplate is balanced with lead weights and has a dowel in the center, as for the oak clock.

The shell was given additional support with the use of a large stainless steel dowel held in position with brass plates.

A 20mm dowel was inserted through the antler and buffalo horn base for strength and to take the 12mm brass screw connector fitting.

The trim under the window is just a strip of matte board with wood dowel on top, with X-acto lines again.

Remove the assembly from the lathe and glue a short piece of 3/8in diameter dowel in the hole.

For instance, the timbers are jointed together using traditional mortise and tenon joints, dowel pegs, copper nails and brass screws.

The dowel mechanism is created from the vertical rebars resisting bending at the moment of shear failure.

Cake technology (yes, there is such a thing) has come a long way since dowel rods and plastic cake level separators.

The majority of tiered cakes are supported and constructed with dowel rods, which hold the multiple levels in place and keep the cake from imploding.

Professional bakers often use dowel rods to construct tiered cakes.

If your baker doesn't have much experience with dowel rods, however, you may want to choose an alternate cake style.

Curl it around a dowel that you hold horizontally.

Tie the end of the wick that's not going into the wax around a dowel, chopstick or wooden skewer to make it easier to hold onto.

The Cutout Dowel Overnighter comes in a deep orange leather and is also available in a medium blue.

Use short dowel rods to make them stand.

Just shape the part the clothes hang on into a circle and straighten the hook or attach whole rings from a soft drink six-pack to a dowel or drinking straw.

Attach a piece of a dowel to each piece if you want to make it a little easier for them.

Some people like to do this flat on a table while others will stick the dowel into a piece of cardboard so it will spin, making the winding process a little faster.

Starting with the wide end, wrap the paper around your dowel or pencil and spin slowly, guiding the paper so it winds evenly around the dowel.

Slide off the dowel and repeat until you have enough beads for your project.

Punch a screw, a large pin, or a small dowel into the narrow side of the box on each end.

When the paint is dry, place the dowel along one of the short sides of the felt and wrap the felt around the dowel.

Quilts can be attached using a dowel placed on the end hooks.

Apply a little pressure to pull more of the section from the wall, and continue to roll it around the dowel, working your way down the wall.

This action is obviously much reduced where the rock sides of the valley rise slowly; but in cases where the rock is very steep, the safest course is to face the facts, and not to depend for water-tightness upon the cementing of the masonry to the rock, but rather to provide a vertical key, or dowel joint, of some material like asphalt, which will always remain water-tight.