rabbet
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Cut them to fit the mortises in the posts, also rabbet the back rails for the backing.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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
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
After the hollowing out is completed, a rabbet one-eighth of an inch wide and deep is cut to receive the deck, its outer line being g h i k, Fig.
From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
The following is the performance at draught of water 2 feet above rabbet of keel: Boiler pressure 90 lb.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various
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
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
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
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
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
In cutting the rebate the easiest way is to use a rabbeting plane and cut the full length of the pieces.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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
Beading.—This part of the work pertains to surface finishings, and may or may not be used in connection with rabbeting.
From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe
The pieces by which this complicated machine is framed, are joined together in various places by scarfing, rabbeting, tenanting, and scoring.
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
