dado

  1. Noun.  (context, architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.
  2. Noun.  (context, architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
  3. Noun.  (context, carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To furnish with a dado.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To cut a dado.

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