rabbet
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Letting one piece of timber into another with a rabbet to give additional strength or finish.
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
The width across the rabbet is 3 in., while the portion above the rabbet and inboard is 7 in. wide.
From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George C. V.
It warn't a week afore he wuz runnin' a rabbet and run right into it.
From A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
The carpenter's dependence on this tool lessened only after the perfection of multipurpose metallic planes that could be readily converted to cut a "rabbet."
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
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
