2. Verb. (third-person singular of dovetail) ¹
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Definition of Dovetails
1. dovetail [v] - See also: dovetail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovetails
Literary usage of Dovetails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"External and Internal dovetails As an example of the use of the table, suppose
that Z, Fig. 9, is the dimension wanted, and that the dimension A and the ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1856)
"... dovetails into it; although there are corroborative facts, such as the former
existence in the family of relics said to have belonged to John, ..."
3. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1854)
"Fig 2 is a perspective view showing the dovetails or locks, and the manner in
which they are forced apart, when it is desired to lock the stones together; ..."
4. Developmental Pathology by Eugene Solomon Talbot (1905)
"The sutures or dovetails of these normally disappear in the adult, ... The dovetails
are replaced by solid bone through a process called synostosis. ..."
5. Exercises in Wood-working, with a Short Treatise on Wood: Written for Manual by Ivin Sickels (1889)
"Laying out and cutting the dovetails. Material.—Front and back pieces of the ...
On these lines mark the places for the dovetails as indicated in Fig. 2. ..."
6. Exercises in Wood-working, with a Short Treatise on Wood: Written for Manual by Ivin Sickels (1889)
"Laying out and cutting the dovetails. Material.—Front and back pieces of the ...
On these lines mark the places for the dovetails as indicated in Fig. 2. ..."
7. The Chickasaw Nation: A Short Sketch of a Noble People by James Henry Malone (1922)
"... and the number of the people in the fleet, it appeared like a famous armada
of galleys. The Country Opposite Memphis dovetails With the Narratives— ..."
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