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• doul (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 dowle, dule, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French doelle (“the hollow part of a tool where the handle is”), from Frankish *duli (“hollow tube, pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *dulją (“pipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰel- (“curvature, hollow”). If so, then cognate with French douelle, douille.

Alternatively from Middle Low German dövel (“peg, plug”), from Old Saxon *dubil, from Proto-Germanic *dubilaz. If so, then cognate with Dutch deuvel (“wooden peg”), German Dübel (“dowel”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdaʊəl/
• 韻: -aʊəl

名詞

dowel (plural dowels)

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.
   • 2006, Steven Caney, Lauren House, Steven Caney's Ultimate Building Book, page 264:

     This twenty-four-piece starter set uses twelve thirty-six-inch-long dowels (or nine forty-eight-inch dowels) cut to these rod lengths. Lay out the cuts so you use the entire length of each dowel without any leftover scraps.

3. (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.

等位語

• (pin or block of wood or metal): spline, biscuit, tenon
• (construction): anchor, screw anchor (US); wall plug (UK).

派生語

• cross dowel
• dowel joint
• dowel pin

動詞

dowel (third-person singular simple present dowels, present participle (US) doweling or (UK) dowelling, simple past and past participle (US) doweled or (UK) dowelled)

1. (transitive) To fasten together with dowels.
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 79:

     The wheels were solid, two half discs dowelled against the hub, and the chariots were pulled along by oxen or asses.

2. (transitive) To furnish with dowels.

   A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

参照

• “dowel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “dowel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• dowle, lowed, owled, wolde