A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
2006, Steven Caney, Lauren House,Steven Caney's Ultimate Building Book, page264:
This twenty-four-piece starter set uses twelve thirty-six-inch-longdowels (or nine forty-eight-inchdowels) cut to these rod lengths. Lay out the cuts so you use the entire length of eachdowel without any leftover scraps.
(construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for“dowel”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
