rabbet
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A rabbet is made for the reception of the glass, and four strips of strap iron, overlapping both the glass, and the wood, and screwed to the wood, keep the glass in position.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various
Cut tenons on the end rails and rabbet them and the side pieces for the panels.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
The rabbet at the end of the piece X is cut not the entire width of the piece Y, but only the width of the lap,—c-f = a-e.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
The sinking a rabbet in the dead-wood, wherein the heels of the timbers rest.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Cut them to fit the mortises in the posts, also rabbet the back rails for the backing.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
