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rabbet

[rab-it] / ˈræb ɪt /










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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

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

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 Sir Edward Belcher

The rabbet should therefore be plowed before the joint is made.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

Inherent in the bench planes is a feeling of motion, particularly in the plow and the rabbet where basic design alone conveys the idea that they were meant to move over fixed surfaces.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

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

The end rails should be cut to length and their tenons worked after one edge of each has been rabbeted as were the posts.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

They are rabbeted on the inside for the glass and are finished on all sides.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

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 H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

There were, however, some ancient rabbeted stones lying near. 

From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn

"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

The sides are to be built up separately, the corners being lapped and glued after rabbeting the under arrises sufficient to let the glass in.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

In place of matching heads, heads for beading, rabbeting, or fancy siding may then be used.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

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




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