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doweled

doweled is the simple past and past participle of dowel.

Meaning of dowel

Verb

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.
    • The wheels were solid, two half discs dowelled against the hub, and the chariots were pulled along by oxen or asses.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 79
  2. (transitive) To furnish with dowels.
    • A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

See all 5 meanings of dowel

Adjective

doweled (comparative more doweled, superlative most doweled)

  1. Having been fastened together with dowels.
    • A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.1918, Herman Frederick Rusch, Shop Work, Joinery-cabinet-making-carpentry, Chicago, Illinois, United States: University of Chicago Press, page 56

Forms of doweled

comparativemore doweled
superlativemost doweled

Words formed from doweled

Questions about doweled

What does doweled mean?
Doweled means having been fastened together with dowels.
What is doweled the simple past and past participle of?
Doweled is the simple past and past participle of dowel.
What part of speech is doweled?
Doweled is an adjective.

Words near doweled in the dictionary

  1. Dowdys
  2. Dowe
  3. dowed
  4. dowel
  5. dowel joint
  6. doweled
  7. doweling
  8. dowelings
  9. Dowell
  10. dowelled
  11. dowelling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doweled (page history and authors); dowel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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