rabbet
Example Sentences
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It also fits into a rabbet on the upper back side of the shelf.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
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
Those fitted in a rabbet to the outside of the quarter-gallery doors, with the object of keeping out the sea, in case of the gallery being carried away.
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
Why, why? and where man, have you been? at a Poulters That you are cas'd thus like a rabbet?
From The Little French Lawyer A Comedy by Beaumont, Francis
