rabbet

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

There is a rabbet in their inside upper edge, to receive the hatches or gratings.

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 entrance was cut out of a massive piece of rock, left thick on purpose, and on either side of the opening the edges still show the rabbet which was to receive the door.

From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers

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 Peter C. Welsh

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 William Noyes

Or the runner and guide may be made of one piece properly rabbeted out.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

Mirror Frame and Standards Details The pieces for the mirror frame must be rabbeted 1/2 in. deep to take the glass, and the ends joined together with a miter at each corner.

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

In gluing together boxes with rabbeted joints, Fig.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The side pieces are also rabbeted for the glass and the posts have grooves 1/2 in. deep cut in them to hold these side pieces.

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

Where caulking is not used, the butts or joints of the planks are sometimes rabbeted, and fayed close, whence they are thus denominated.

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

"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

For rabbeting and fillister work the upper holes q are used, while using ploughs the lower ones are brought into requisition.

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

These included "Planing, moulding, rabbeting, grooving, mortising, and sawing, both in coarse and fine work, in curved, winding, and transverse directions, and shaping wood in complicated forms."

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

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 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