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Noun: dado  dey-dow
  1. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall
    - wainscot
     
  2. The section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase
     
  3. A rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it
Verb: dado  dey-dow
  1. (carpentry) provide with a dado
    "The owners wanted to dado their dining room"
     
  2. (carpentry) cut a dado into or fit into a dado

Derived forms: dadoed, dados, dadoes, dadoing

Type of: channel, furnish, groove, offer, panel, provide, render, section, segment, supply

Part of: footstall, pedestal, plinth, wall

Encyclopedia: Dado, Count of Pombia