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dovetail
dovetail is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one.
- 2transitive verb
To cut to a dovetail.
- 3transitive verb
To join by means of dovetails.
- 4transitive verb
To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.
- 5noun
a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises
- 6verb
fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail
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