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Definition of Dowel pin

1. Noun. A fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowel Pin

Literary usage of Dowel pin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on appendicitis and notes on other subjects by Robert Tuttle Morris (1899)
"THE dowel-pin was employed in one of my cases of fracture of the clavicle, ... An impromptu dowel-pin was made from the silver bar of a watch chain. ..."

2. The Phosphates of America: Where and how They Occur; how They are Mined; and by Francis Wyatt (1892)
"... and are firmly fastened on each disc exteriorly by the disc-bolt and dowel-pin, and distribute the material to be pulverized into the path of the rolls. ..."

3. The Phosphates of America: Where and how They Occur; how They are Mined; and by Francis Wyatt (1891)
"The fan-blades FF, four in number, are of steel or wrought-iron and are firmly fastened on each disc exteriorly by the disc-bolt and dowel-pin, ..."

4. Biennial Report by Oregon Board of Railroad Commissioners, Oregon, Board of Railroad Commissioners (1889)
"Q.—What do you call a dowel-pin? A.—An iron pin driven into the post and into ... A hole is bored in the post and that dowel-pin sets in there instead of a ..."

5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Dowel—joint A junction for-ned by means of a dowel pin or pins, ... Dowel-pin. A pin or peg un-nitin-ng two portions, as the piece.nn- of h ..."

6. Proceedings by Journal, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1849)
"The dowel-pin does not receive any of the pressure of the wheels, but holds the rails ... The dowel-pin also prevents the rails from rising at the joint, ..."

7. New England Medical Monthly (1891)
"An aluminum dowel-pin was passed through the medullary cavity in the long axis ... The bones were crowded together, the dowel-pin entering the bones of the ..."

8. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1850)
"The dowel-pin does not receive any of the pressure of the wheels, ... The effect of the long plate under the head of the dowel-pin is to connect the two ..."

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