| 单词 | dowel |
| 释义 | dowel (once / 33388 pages) n A dowel is a peg, usually made of wood, that fastens two objects together. A dowel might connect a shelf to a bracket, for example. Dowels are used in furniture making to hold different parts together, such as a table leg and a table top. A dowel usually works by fitting into a slot or hole in each of the two adjacent pieces. Elaborate cakes with many different tiers might have dowels hidden inside them, connecting each separate cake to the next. The word dowel is believed to stem from the same root as the Middle Low German dovel, "plug" or "tap." WORD FAMILYdowel: dowels USAGE EXAMPLESBy the time Adomait left, we’d decided on wooden dowels and rough linen handles on each side of the boxes. The Guardian(Nov 19, 2016) Instead of a torch, I’m carrying a wooden dowel studded with small, shiny balls. The Verge(Jul 01, 2016) It is here that the bats favored by the major leaguers have been fashioned from wooden dowels into the implements of homers for 125 years. Washington Times(Jun 05, 2016) n a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together Syn|Hyper dowel pin, joggle fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place |
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