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rabbet

[rab-it] / ˈræb ɪt /










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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 H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

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

As with the plow and the rabbet, its shape is ubiquitous.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

Also unintentional, but pleasing, is the distinctive throat of the rabbet plane—a design that developed to permit easy discharge of shavings, and one that mass manufacture did not destroy.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

In an end-lap joint on rabbeted pieces the joint must be adapted to the rabbet.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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

The mirror is put in a frame, which is made to fit the back opening and has the corners mitered and the back rabbeted to receive the mirror.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I 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

The meeting stiles and sometimes those on the opposite side have rabbeted joints, the latter fitting the jambs of the window frame.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

All the masonry, except the rabbeted work, is constructed from the dark basalt which abounds in that district. 

From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn

"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

In place of matching heads, heads for beading, rabbeting, or fancy siding may then be used.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

A ledge and miter or lipped miter joint is made by rabbeting and mitering the boards to be joined so that the outer portion of the two boards meet in a miter.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

Beading.—This part of the work pertains to surface finishings, and may or may not be used in connection with rabbeting.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe


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