Dovetailing [verb]

The pieces are firmly dovetailed together, the front being clean and the dovetailing blind.

Eventually however, the bones come close together, and are joined by a curious kind of dovetailing.

An alternative method of dovetailing is that of cutting the dovetails first, as shown at Fig. 283.

Then at Fig. 293 are shown two familiar examples of dovetailing the bearer to the carcase end of a dressing table or washstand.

This shows the necessity of bevelled dovetailing in order that the drawer front may be kept as thin and light as possible.

I cannot invent: I possess only the talent of dovetailing facts and placing them in relief.

If we turn to any of the special sciences the same dovetailing and over-lapping appear.

It was, too, of oak some inches thick, and fitted upon the chest by a kind of dovetailing at the edges.

His theory of Nationalist progress was four-square and complete, and showed a neat dovetailing of means with the end.

The rough dovetailing of the lintels of the outer circle would present no difficulty to users of the tools already mentioned.