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- verb Present participle of
dowel .
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Examples
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Do the dowelling at home, but do the final assembly at the site.
project wedding cake: an introduction | smitten kitchen 2008
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In her statement of claim, Ms Crawford said she was hit with a bat, a metre-long ruler, a piece of wooden dowelling and a cane.
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His favoured means of punishment was to make a student put his fingers on the desk and then he'd use a piece of wooden dowelling, about two feet long, to whip down across the fingernails.
The Jigsaw Man Britton, Paul, 1946- 1997
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In surface installation new fixing methods have replaced the traditional dowelling technique.
5. Fundamentals of installation engineering Werner Boschitsch 1991
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Pinning, known as pegging or dowelling in woodworking, allows rigid but dismountable joints to be made.
1. Bonding 1988
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The wooden spanner was really a piece of dowelling jammed into a metal pipe with the shape of the nut chiselled in one end.
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Reject logs are made into dowelling, moldings, and picture frames.
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I was whistling happily and splitting some thin dowelling when Adriana came in.
The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
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Fig. 198 illustrates the method of marking out and gauging two boards for dowelling.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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This method is illustrated to show that, by the use of a suitable template, dowels may be exactly set out even when there is no straight or square face from which to use a marking gauge, and the method may, of course, be applied to many other examples of dowelling at the discretion of the workman.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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