Noun: dowel daw-ul
- A fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together
"The carpenter used wooden dowels to join the table legs to the top"; "They used dowel pins to reinforce the bookshelf assembly";
- dowel pin, joggle
Derived forms: doweled, dowels
Type of: fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast
Encyclopedia: Dowel, William