rabbet
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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
After the hollowing out is completed, a rabbet one-eighth of an inch wide and deep is cut to receive the deck, its outer line being g h i k, Fig.
From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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
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
As with the plow and the rabbet, its shape is ubiquitous.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
The glass was135 set in rabbeted edges and held in place by putty according to the method still in use.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
The corners are mitered and the backs rabbeted to receive the panels.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
Or the runner and guide may be made of one piece properly rabbeted out.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
In a mortise-and-tenon joint on rabbeted pieces, Fig.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The end rails 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
"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
In cutting the rebate the easiest way is to use a rabbeting plane and cut the full length of the pieces.
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
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
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
