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Dowle vs Dowel - What's the difference?

dowle | dowel |

As nouns the difference between dowle and dowel

is that dowle is feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather while dowel is 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.

As a verb dowel is

to fasten together with dowels.

dowle

English

Alternative forms

* dowl, doul

Noun

  • feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
    • You fools! I and my fellows
    Are ministers of fate: the elements
    Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well
    Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
    Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
    One dowle that's in my plume; [...]
  • * , Notes on Godwin Foster and Hazlitt, at page 304 in the collected works' volume of 1864.
    • No feather, or dowle of a feather, but was heavy enough for him.

    dowel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
  • *
  • (construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may fastened to it.

    • Coordinate terms

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

    Verb

    (dowell)
  • To fasten together with dowels.
  • To furnish with dowels.
    • A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
    (Webster 1913)

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