A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
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 piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
To fasten together with dowels.
To furnish with dowels.
A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.