dowel

By the time she folds it shut with a long wooden dowel, the flatbread is already bubbly and browned.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2023

Maintenance is easy, too: He just turns it with a rebar dowel and hoses it down when it's dry.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2022

No, a guy walks into a gallery, carrying a bar — a wooden dowel painted in bright stripes of color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2022

Once you’re feeling confident, St. Jean says you can graduate to a dowel or tapered pin, or even start using the center of the pin like a dowel and skip the handles altogether.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

Held up by a series of metal pipes as thin as dowel rods.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

People are getting imaginative, painting pegboards to look like murals or creating custom wall installations using beautiful wood for the panels and chunky dowels to support shelves.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2022

You can separately buy rings to attach to the ends of pins, which work best with dowels, as opposed to tapered styles.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

It was the first house I had ever been in that did not have wardrobes, no three-piece set of veneered chipboard, that leaned precariously as the glue loosened in the dowels.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020

They spread the dough onto silicon mats, covered it in parchment paper and began to roll it smooth with wooden dowels.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2019

Looped neatly over pegs beside each marionette was an array of dowels and paddles, strung together with thin black cord.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

Verdi Biographer Francis Toye. ¶ Its jackets are built with a doweled spine wide enough to carry lettering.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Top.—The top should be made of three boards, either tongued and grooved, or doweled and glued together.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by Zerbe, James Slough

In a doweled butt-joint the dowels may go clear thru the outside member, and be finished as buttons on the outside, where they show.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

The Finished Library Table The table top is made of several boards which are doweled and glued together.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)

The machines cut and sewed and trimmed and planed and doweled and assembled, but apparently none of them was up to the fine art of spitting tacks.

From The Servant Problem by Young, Robert F.

The second section was brought up from Birmingham and was eventually put back together with the larger piece by a stone mason using copper tube doweling.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022

The new supergrip glues have also been a boon to the basement Sheraton: they will hold wood joints together more durably than the most exquisite doweling.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is, to be sure, a prejudice against dowels on the part of cabinet-makers due, possibly, to the willingness to have it appear that doweling is a device of inferior mechanics.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

The construction may be further strengthened by also doweling the end of this stretcher into the legs.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

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.

From The Colonel's Dream by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)

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.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

These pieces are fitted neatly to the proper size and dowelled firmly together.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)

Water wylger ay wax, woneȝ þat stryede Water wildly ever waxed, abodes that destroyed, Hurled in-to vch hous, hent þat þer dowelled Hurled into each house, seized those that there dwelt.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard

All these things went into colonial furniture, so beautifully cut, so carefully dowelled and put together, so well made, that many of the things have become heirlooms in the families for which they were constructed.

From Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples by Wheeler, Candace

The tools used in dowelling are: Brace, countersink, dowel-rounder, twist bit, try-square, marking-awl, and the usual bench tools.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by Fairham, William

At present, mortising and dowelling have come to the front as proper processes, especially for table-building; and this time the style appears under the name of "Mission furniture."

From Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples by Wheeler, Candace