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dovetailed

[ duhv-teyld ]

adjective

, Heraldry.
  1. noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dovetailed1

First recorded in 1715–25; dovetail + -ed 3
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Example Sentences

The cellphone use among pedestrians has dovetailed insidiously with hyper-gentrification, Moss says.

“I think the Old-Fashioned craze has also dovetailed with a lot of drinkers coming back to whiskey,” Simonson says.

Obama's message was narrowly about peace, but it dovetailed with Molad's.

The segment was called “Swinging in the Suburbs,” and it dovetailed with a Newsweek cover story I wrote on unfaithful women.

In one form of feather key the part within the piece carried by the shaft is dovetailed as shown at (f).

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

The dovetailed bit of iron is knocked downwards and falls off, and the ring may then be lifted clear of the casting.

On this account some watches have slots dovetailed in form, being wider at the bottom, others have ruby pins of this form.

Fig. 37 is "Oblique Dovetail Halving," one side of the piece being dovetailed.

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