dowel

Meaning of dowel

noun
  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. A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
verb
  1. To fasten together with dowels.
  2. To furnish with dowels.
    A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

Information about dowel

  • The plural form of dowel is: dowels.
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Hyphenation of dowel

dowel

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • dowel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dowel synonyms

Meaning dowel pin:

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Translation of dowel

Anagrams of dowel

dowle, Ewold, lowed, owled

Words that rhyme with dowel

bowel, debowel, disbowel, disembowel, embowel, unbowel, tredefowel, Howel, howel, thowel, jowel, Nowel, nowel, Powel, Prowel, rowel, trowel, woodrowel, sowel, betowel, dishtowel, handtowel, towel, Vowel, semivowel, vowel

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