"Dowel" is a word in ENGLISH
A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may
be nailed to it.
To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as,
a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the
abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and
partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.
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