Word: dowel
Category: dowel
Business & Industrial, Home & Garden, Hobbies & Leisure
Related words: dowel
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Synonyms: dowel
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: dowel
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spanish
Translations:
clavija
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german
Translations:
zapfen, zylinderstift, dübel
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french
Translations:
goujon
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russian
Translations:
дюбель, штифт, шпонка, штырь, чека
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finnish
Translations:
vaarna
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czech
Translations:
hmoždinka, hmoždík
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polish
Translations:
kołek, dybel
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ukrainian
Translations:
штир
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estonian
Translations:
tüübel
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croatian
Translations:
klip
The meaning and "use of": dowel
noun
- a peg of wood, metal, or plastic without a distinct head, used for holding together components of a structure. - A rambling collection of old log buildings put together with wood dowels , the Gakona Lodge and Trading Post dates back to 1904 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- fasten with a dowel or dowels. - Its seat is comprised of tongue-and-groove pieces, while the leg stretchers are doweled into place.
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