dowelling

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English

Verb

dowelling

  1. present participle and gerund of dowel

Noun

dowelling (plural dowellings)

  1. (construction) A dowel.
  2. The use of dowels in manufacture.
    • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
      One soon learned, however, that it was no easy thing to make wood do exactly as one required it. It looked quite easy in the masterly hands of the experienced pattern-maker, but the mysteries of dowelling and mortice and tenon were not uncovered in a week or two.

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