A technique in joinery where a hole is bored slightly off-center to allow a wooden dowel or pin to pull joints tightly together when inserted.
From 'draw' (to pull) + 'bore' (Old English borian, to drill). Woodworking technique dating to medieval carpentry.
Drawbore joinery is clever physics—the offset hole means that when you drive the pin in, the joint gets pulled impossibly tight, creating seams so strong that medieval furniture still survives 800 years later without nails or glue.
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