Dowel: alternatives and connections

State of abutting.

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

A spit.

A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

of Bush

A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the jo…

A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be o…

A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut sho…

of Dice

A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.

Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic.