Usually means: Cylindrical rod used in joinery.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dowel: Merriam-Webster
  2. dowel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dowel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dowel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dowel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dowel, dowel: Wordnik
  7. dowel: Wiktionary
  8. dowel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dowel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dowel: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Dowel, dowel: Dictionary.com
  12. dowel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Dowel (disambiguation), Dowel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. dowel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. dowel: Rhymezone
  16. Dowel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. dowel: FreeDictionary.org
  18. dowel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dowel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Dowel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  21. dowel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dowel: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dowel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. dowel: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dowel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dowel: TheFurniture.com
  3. Dowel: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See doweled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
noun:  A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
noun:  (construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
verb:  (transitive) To fasten together with dowels.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with dowels.

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