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rabbet

[rab-it] / ˈræb ɪt /










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Daniel D. Whitker patented a combination saw and rabbet plane little different from one illustrated by André-Jacob Roubo in his L'Art du menuisier in 1769.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

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

In an end-lap joint on rabbeted pieces the joint must be adapted to the rabbet.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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

I promised Allworthy already to give up half my estate—od rabbet it!

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

It will be noted that the edges of the lid are rabbeted.

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

Nigh to this, again, was a square building of rabbeted stones, equal to almost the largest in the walls of Jerusalem.

From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn

The meeting stiles and sometimes those on the opposite side have rabbeted joints, the latter fitting the jambs of the window frame.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

The frames 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

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

A ledge and miter or lipped miter joint is made by rabbeting and mitering the boards to be joined so that the outer portion of the two boards meet in a miter.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes


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