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Woodworking connector (5)

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I believe the answer is:

dowel

(Other definitions for dowel that I've seen before include "Headless peg used for joining components" , "Lowed (anag.)" , "Peg used for fastening two adjacent parts of a structure" , "Wooden peg" , "Peg fitting into hole" .)

I've seen this clue in the LA Times.
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