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

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

Most of them look more fabricky, or almost like a wood or metal dowel that has fabric on the end of it .

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2021

The oft-recommended dowel and tapered pins from J.K.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

With a sharp knife, she cut the roll into paper-thin strips, unwound the strips and hung them on a rack made of slender dowel sticks, which stood before the kitchen stove.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

The first, Spherae, is a ball-shaped cushion supported by three polished wood dowels that slide through a brass disc and lock into place.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

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

And they were loud, enthusiastically hitting empty buckets with wooden dowels, earning them the nickname the Bucket Brigade.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2020

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

The day I wandered into the coal shed looking for trouble I had the drum on my hip and two little dowels for drumsticks.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The way we've made that panel, Gus, with those end cleats doweled on and the shellacking of both sides—it'll never warp.

From Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio by Wayne Whipple

A doweled butt-joint is made by inserting, with glue, dowel-pins into holes bored into the two members.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The felloes were made six inches thick, and were strongly doweled together with seasoned hardwood pins; the linch pin was of hickory or ash; the thills were wood; in fact all of it was wood.

From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Alfred Henry Lewis

Interior woodwork of good design and workmanship everywhere greets the eye, especially noticeable features being the rounding cornices, heavy wainscots and the floors an inch and a half in thickness and doweled together.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

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

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

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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 William Noyes

These instruments consist of two pieces of wood dowelled together with twenty holes that taper from 7/16 inch to 3/16 inch.

From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by John T. Schlebecker

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 Candace Wheeler

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

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

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 William Noyes

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 Richard Morris

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 Candace Wheeler

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 William Fairham