ALL meanings of dowel
dow·el
D d - noun dowel small wooden rod 1
- noun dowel A peg of wood, metal, or plastic without a distinct head, used for holding together components of a structure. 1
- noun dowel a piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a masonry wall to receive nails, as for fastening woodwork. 1
- noun dowel a round wooden rod of relatively small diameter. 1
- noun dowel Dentistry. a peg, usually of metal, set into the root canal of a natural tooth to give additional support to an artificial crown. 1
- verb with object dowel to reinforce or furnish with a dowel or dowels. 1
- noun dowel Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them. 0
- noun dowel 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. 0
- noun dowel A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from. 0
- noun dowel (construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may fastened to it. 0
- verb dowel (Transitive Verb) To fasten together with dowels. 0
- verb dowel (Transitive Verb) To furnish with dowels. 0
- countable noun dowel A dowel is a short thin piece of wood or metal which is used for joining larger pieces of wood or metal together. 0
- noun dowel a wooden or metal peg that fits into two corresponding holes to join two adjacent parts 0
- noun dowel a short cylinder of wood, metal, etc., usually fitted into corresponding holes in two pieces to fasten them together 0
- verb transitive dowel to fasten or furnish with dowels 0