rabbet
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Fig. 266-27 Dado tongue and rabbet No. 28.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
There is a rabbet in their inside upper edge, to receive the hatches or gratings.
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
It warn't a week afore he wuz runnin' a rabbet and run right into it.
From A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
The width across the rabbet is 3 in., while the portion above the rabbet and inboard is 7 in. wide.
From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George C. V.
Also unintentional, but pleasing, is the distinctive throat of the rabbet plane—a design that developed to permit easy discharge of shavings, and one that mass manufacture did not destroy.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
