| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | dow·el |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  dou  l |
| NOUN: | 1. A usually round pin that fits tightly into a corresponding hole to fasten or align two adjacent pieces. 2. A piece of wood driven into a wall to act as an anchor for nails. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: dow·eled, dow·el·ing, dow·els also dow·elled, dow·el·ling, dow·els
1. To fasten or align with dowels: table legs that are doweled to the top. 2. To equip with dowels. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English doule, part of a wheel, perhaps from Middle Low German dovel, plug, or from Old French doele, barrel stave (diminutive of douve, from Late Latin doga, vessel, from Greek dokh , recepticle, from dekhesthai, to take; see dek- in Appendix I).
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