Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dovetail

1 sense of dovetail

Sense 1
dovetail, dovetail joint -- (a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises)
       => mortise joint, mortise-and-tenon joint -- (a joint made by inserting tenon on one piece into mortise holes in the other)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb dovetail

1 sense of dovetail

Sense 1
dovetail -- (fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail)
       => fit -- (make fit; "fit a dress"; "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out")