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Dovetail   /dˈəvtˌeɪl/   Listen
Dovetail

noun
1.
A mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises.  Synonym: dovetail joint.



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"Dovetail" Quotes from Famous Books



... ore in mines, others transport their produce, others smelt it and work it into shape, according to the designs and plans of still other men; then it is transported by new groups and marketed by an endless chain of men whose labors dovetail to the end that mankind has a tool, a habitation or an ornament. The past and present cooperate in this labor, as do the remote ends of the earth. Competition is the SPUR of trade; its mighty sinews, its strong heart ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

... normal phrase on such occasions (there is always a "dovetail" de rigueur) "Allah give ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... offend your intellect; and we must become dull or we should offend your taste. A late writer, wishing to sustain his interest to the last page, hung his hero at the end of the third volume. The consequence was that no one would read his novel. And who can apportion out and dovetail his incidents, dialogues, characters, and descriptive morsels so as to fit them all exactly into 930 pages, without either compressing them unnaturally, or extending them artificially at the end of his labour? Do I not myself know that I am at this moment in want of a dozen pages, ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope



Words linked to "Dovetail" :   go, mortise joint, fit, dovetail plane, mortise-and-tenon joint



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