rabbet
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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
Set the fence and the stop at the desired width and depth of the rabbet.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
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
The re-entering angle left upon the wood is called the rebate or rabbet.
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
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
The end rails should be cut to length and their tenons worked after one edge of each has been rabbeted as were the posts.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
They are rabbeted on the inside for the glass and are finished on all sides.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 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
"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
Instead of rabbeting the mirror frame, a 1/4 by 3/8-in. fillet of oak is nailed around to form the recess, the walnut frame and oak fillet making a pretty contrast.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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
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
