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n. - Fastening by headless smooth or barbed pins usually of circular section fitting into corresponding holes in abutting pieces to act as a temporary fastening or to keep them permanently in their proper relative position

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  • It is suspended against the the wall on wooden doweling.
  • He lathed them out of thick doweling, band-sawed into nine-inch lengths.
  • From the other two legs I shook out a dozen pieces of quartered wooden doweling.
  • I took pieces of white flannel and made a casing and then put the casing onto the doweling.
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