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  • noun Plural form of dowel.

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Examples

  • These can be made with dowels from a hardware store.

    How do you know what length(inches) arrows to shoot? 2009

  • These can be made with dowels from a hardware store.

    How do you know what length(inches) arrows to shoot? 2009

  • I just made my first wedding cake a month or so ago – and you just REALLY want to make sure that all your dowels are the same size.

    project wedding cake: mango curd | smitten kitchen 2008

  • And they were approach one of these so-called dowels on the concern that there might be some contraband inside.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007 2007

  • We also prepared all of the vertical connections ( "dowels") that would be needed to join the courses of the tendril frieze of the naiskos to the architrave and fluted frieze blocks of the entablature.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects - Northwest Heroon Report 4 2003

  • Using delicate hardwood, antler, and bone dowels they had carefully pressed the copper into the mold, creating falcons, images of Eagle Man, Seeing Eyes, and other sacred designs.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Using delicate hardwood, antler, and bone dowels they had carefully pressed the copper into the mold, creating falcons, images of Eagle Man, Seeing Eyes, and other sacred designs.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • I see lots of ski poles of varying heights affixed with miniature skis on the bottoms, wooden dowels with tennis balls stuck to the ends, all kinds of boots and metal hardware.

    Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

  • I see lots of ski poles of varying heights affixed with miniature skis on the bottoms, wooden dowels with tennis balls stuck to the ends, all kinds of boots and metal hardware.

    Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

  • Real enthusiasts may want to try drafting their own nautical charts they will need to dig a hole, fill it with water and use dowels to test depth or to play Axis and Allies by moving chess pieces over an old map of Austria-Hungary.

    Finding True North, Chasing Elusive Bigfoot Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

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