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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dowel .
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Examples
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It's all solid timber, tongue-and-groove, dowelled and glued joints - no staple gun for Dad.
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It's all solid timber, tongue-and-groove, dowelled and glued joints - no staple gun for Dad.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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These instruments consist of two pieces of wood dowelled together with twenty holes that taper from 7/16 inch to 3/16 inch.
Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 John T. Schlebecker
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-- Fig. 333 illustrates the method of mitreing the moulded portion of a door frame where the joint is dowelled, not tenoned.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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A. Brackets of large truck-carriages are made each of two pieces, joined by a jog _a_, and dowelled.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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For example, we have mitre halving in Fig. 34, a mitre bridle joint in Fig. 74, a tongued and grooved mitre in Fig. 116, mitred mortise and tenon joints in Figs. 148 and 159, a dowelled mitre frame in Fig. 202, and a mitred dovetail in Fig. 286.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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In this case the bottom is raised from the floor, and may be dadoed into the bottom rails, or dowelled into them or even supported by strips attached along their lower inside edges.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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Fig. 202 shows one corner of a mitred and dowelled frame.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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Provide and fix to external door opening Ground Floor Back Room 4-in. x 3-in. solid deal rebated posts and head secured to brickwork and dowelled into stone threshold with architraves on inside.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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The old house had been built of the best materials, and its woodwork dowelled and mortised and tongued and grooved by men who knew their trade and had not learned to scamp their work.
The Colonel's Dream 1895
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