rabbet
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The groove or rabbet of a screw; the breech-sight or notch cut on the base-ring of a gun, and also on the swell of the muzzle, by which the piece is laid.
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 at the end of the piece X is cut not the entire width of the piece Y, but only the width of the lap,—c-f = a-e.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
It also fits into a rabbet on the upper back side of the shelf.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
A framing composed of coamings and head-ledges raised above the deck, with a top which shuts closely over into a rabbet.
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
Set the fence and the stop at the desired width and depth of the rabbet.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
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
There were, however, some ancient rabbeted stones lying near.
From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn
In gluing together boxes with rabbeted joints, Fig.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
"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
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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
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
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
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