2. Noun. The situation in which things are dovetailed. ¹
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Definition of Dovetailing
1. dovetail [v] - See also: dovetail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovetailing
Literary usage of Dovetailing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Construction and Operation of Wood-working Machines by John Richards (1872)
"A history of the persevering efforts of inventors to produce successful machines
for dovetailing, and the various machines constructed for the purpose, ..."
2. The Labor Market by Don Divance Lescohier (1919)
"dovetailing OF ESTABLISHMENT DEMANDS The dovetailing of employments and the
systematic replacement of men necessarily let out by employers is the second ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"dovetailing life, labor and public schools. Survey 35:503-4 Ja Ü9 '16 . Education for
life work in non-professional Chase. Nat Educ Assn 1915:698-702 ..."
4. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"... of the art of dovetailing, already practised in the earliest Pharaonic ages,
or the mode of applying two planks together in the same plane, ..."
5. The Passions of the Human Soul by Charles Fourier, Hugh Doherty, John Reynell Morell (1851)
"CHAPTER I. OF THE COMPOSITE OR CONTRASTED (dovetailing) PASSION, ... The composite
or dovetailing passion tries to ally and cause a cotemporary enjoyment of ..."
6. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1857)
"WHINES' PATENT MACHINE FOR dovetailing, GROOVING, SLOTTING AND ... 2 an end
elevation of the improved dovetailing machine; ..."
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