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单词 dowel
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doweln.

/ˈdaʊəl/
Forms: Middle English–1500s dowle, 1600s–1700s doul(e, 1700s dowl, ( dole), 1800s dowel, dowell.
Etymology: Of doubtful derivation; perhaps answering to Middle Low German dovel, German döbel, Middle High German tübel, Old High German tubili plug, tap (of a cask, etc.). Still closer in form is Old French doelle, douelle barrel-stave, diminutive of < modern French douve in same sense; but the transference of sense is unexplained.
1. A headless pin, peg, or bolt, of wood, metal, or other material, serving to fasten together two pieces of wood, stone, etc., by penetrating some distance into the substance of the connected pieces.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > headless
dowel1388
1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Kings vii. 33 The extrees..the spokis and dowlis [1382 felijs; L. modioli] of the wheelis.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 21270 Þe quelis ar ioyned with mani a dowle.
1483 Cath. Angl. 105/1 A Dowle of a whele; stellio.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 129 A felly, with the dowels on the end, by which it is fastened at the joints.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 966 Dowels, pins of wood or iron used at the edges of boards in laying floors, to avoid the appearance of the nails on the surface.
1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 303 An immense block of stone..bolted into sockets in the masonry below by bronze dowels fixed into its lower face.
2. A plug of wood driven into a wall to receive nails; a dook. [German döbel, dübel.]
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > plug to hold nail or screw
dook1808
wall dock1833
dowel1864
plug1881
Rawlplug1912
1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1874 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.

Compounds

dowel-axe n.
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1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 187 They cleave these Bolts (with their Dowl-Ax) by the Felt-grain.
dowel-bit n. a boring-tool of semi-cylindrical form terminating in a conoidal edge; also called a spoon-bit.
dowel-hole n. a hole into which a dowel is or may be inserted.
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1885 Academy 21 Nov. 326/1 The floor has raised edges, in which are visible the dowel-holes to hold wooden panels.
dowel-joint n. a junction formed by means of a dowel or dowels.
dowel-pin n. = sense 1.
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1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 108 There are Joints, down~right Pegs, or Dole-pins.
1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ i. 6 Then he hammered the timber down on the iron dowel pins.
dowel-pointer n. a tool for pointing or chamfering the ends of dowels.
dowel-ways adv. in the manner of a dowel.
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a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Somerset 20 Having every stone..shaped Doule-wayes, or in the form of a Cart-nail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

dowelv.

/ˈdaʊəl/
Etymology: < dowel n.
transitive. To fasten with a dowel or dowels.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with pins or pegs > with specific type
thorn1605
poniard1620
dowel1712
toggle1836
pivot1842
safety-pin1892
1712 J. Warder True Amazons 112 You must doult or nail together on the under Side, 2 Boards.
1792 Acc. Buggesses in Ann. Reg. 66 Dowling the planks together, as coopers do the parts that form the head of a cask.
1883 Gore in Glasgow Weekly Her. 7 July 2/7 These [columns] are not cemented but dowelled with iron clamps in the centre.

Derivatives

dowelled adj.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > [adjective] > with pin or peg > specific type
dowelled1805
pivoted1830
1805 Times 7 Nov. 4/2 Excellent dowelled flooring.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder App. 76 To lay dowelled floors.
dowelling n.
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1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator iii. 183/2 The method of uniting boards in a flat surface, called ‘dowelling’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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