verb, noun
verb (formal) ~ (sth) (with / into sth) if two things dovetail or if one thing dovetails with another, they fit together well:
[V] My plans dovetailed nicely with hers. [also VN]
Part of speech: noun
(also dovetail joint) a joint for fixing two pieces of wood together
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dovetail is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dovetail a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dovetail is tagged as noun.
Does dovetail appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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