dowels

Meaning of dowels

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
  3. A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.

Information about dowels

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of dowels is: dowel.
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Hyphenation of dowels

dow-els

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • dowels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of dowels

dowles, lowsed, slowed, sowled, woldes

Words that rhyme with dowels

Wels, wels, knawels, bejewels, crewels, jewels, newels, sewels, shewels, tewels, bowels, disbowels, disembowels, dishtowels, embowels, forebowels, handtowels, nowels, rowels, semivowels, thowels, towels, trowels, vowels, Pauwels

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