<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Also called dowel pin.</li><li>Carpentry: a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.</li><li>A piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a masonry wall to receive nails, as for fastening woodwork.</li><li>A round wooden rod of relatively small diameter.</li><li>Dentistry: a peg, usually of metal, set into the root canal of a natural tooth to give additional support to an artificial crown.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) doweled, doweling or (especially British) dowelled, dowelling: to reinforce or furnish with a dowel or dowels.</li></ul>