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rabbet

[rab-it] / ˈræb ɪt /










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The following is the performance at draught of water 2 feet above rabbet of keel: Boiler pressure 90 lb.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various

It warn't a week afore he wuz runnin' a rabbet and run right into it.

From A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others by Francis Hopkinson Smith

I promised Allworthy already to give up half my estate—od rabbet it!

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Inherent in the bench planes is a feeling of motion, particularly in the plow and the rabbet where basic design alone conveys the idea that they were meant to move over fixed surfaces.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

Those fitted in a rabbet to the outside of the quarter-gallery doors, with the object of keeping out the sea, in case of the gallery being carried away.

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 Sir Edward Belcher

The frames should be rabbeted on the inside for the latticework and the glass.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

It will be noted that the edges of the lid are rabbeted.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

In a mortise-and-tenon joint on rabbeted pieces, Fig.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

They should be rabbeted for the lattice work and the glass.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

For those rabbeted incisions, which he suspects in a cone, are made by the inequality of the body, and not of the superficies.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

"All you need is one reasonably respectable wife," says Public Relations Wizard Gig Young, rabbeting in a plot gimmick designed to keep a flapdoodle comedy from collapsing in the first reel.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sides are to be built up separately, the corners being lapped and glued after rabbeting the under arrises sufficient to let the glass in.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

Fillister, fil′is-ter, n. a rabbeting plane used in making window-sashes.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Also, without the rabbeting water may get under the cap, and pass along the top till a hole lets it among the bees.

From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby

The pieces by which this complicated machine is framed, are joined together in various places by scarfing, rabbeting, tenanting, and scoring.

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 Sir Edward Belcher


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