rabbet
Example Sentences
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The corners are mitered and the backs rabbeted to receive the panels.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
The mirror is put in a frame, which is made to fit the back opening and has the corners mitered and the back rabbeted to receive the mirror.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
It will be noted that the edges of the lid are rabbeted.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
For those rabbeted incisions, which he suspects in a cone, are made by the inequality of the body, and not of the superficies.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
The glass was135 set in rabbeted edges and held in place by putty according to the method still in use.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank
