rabbet
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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
It is practicable, if a rabbet or mitered joint is used in the sides, but if the side pieces are butted or dadoed, the rabbet for the bottom shows.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
In an end-lap joint on rabbeted pieces the joint must be adapted to the rabbet.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
Fig. 266-33 Mortise and tenon with rabbet No. 34.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
Some are particularly strong, as those in the hold, which are mostly built with rabbeted or cyphered plank; others are light, and removable at pleasure.
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
With the studs rabbeted at the mill, the carpenter work is reduced to the simple task of sawing the boards and struts to length.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
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
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
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
"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 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
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
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
