dowel

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

dow=el

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun dowel has 1 sense

dowel(n = noun.artifact) dowel pin, joggle - a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together;

is a kind of fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

dowel, n. & v.
--n. a headless peg of wood, metal, or plastic for holding together components of a structure.
--v.tr. (dowelled, dowelling; US doweled, doweling) fasten with a dowel or dowels.

Etymology

ME f. MLG dovel: cf. THOLE(1)