dowel

[dou-uhl] / ˈdaʊ əl /

NOUN

fastener

Synonyms

STRONG

peg pin

Example Sentences

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Quan the cherye was a flour, than hadde it non ston; Quan the dowe was an ey, than hadde it non bon.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Which thing Paule puttith in practise when he biddith / that the Corinthians shuld excommunicat the fornicator / les that a litill leauẽ shuld soure the whole lumpe of dowe.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter

And how xuld ony dowe ben withoute bon?

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

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