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

The dowel and tapered pins are the most straightforward, consisting of a single piece.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

Matthews carved up a dowel to manufacture the red and blue markers that represent a superpower’s influence in any given country.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2018

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

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

"About drumsticks, eh? Well, just as your drumsticks belong inside your drum, and dowels will not do, so a kitten belongs with its mother, and no one else will do."

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

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 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 H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

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

A doweled joint is made by jointing the two edges carefully, boring holes opposite each other and inserting dowel pins when the two edges are glued together.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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 William Noyes

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

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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 Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

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

A.   Brackets of large truck-carriages are made each of two pieces, joined by a jog a, and dowelled.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

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

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

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