rabbet
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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 Sir Edward Belcher
The rabbet plane, made by Carpenter, is traceable via another route, the U.S.
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
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
That on which all the lower deck planks are rabbeted.
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
It is rabbeted on the back to hold a 20 by 38-in. mirror.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
The front edges are rounded while the back edges are rabbeted on the inside as deep as the backing to be used.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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
The door frame is mitered at the corners and rabbeted on the inner edge to take the panel.
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
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
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
A rabbeting plane will be needed for this.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 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
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