rabbet
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To enrich his theme and variegate his texture, he abruptly interjects a two-minute "quote" from another movie and later for the same reasons rabbets in some paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe.
From Time Magazine Archive
His narrative is merely connective tissue, and for no clear reason he rabbets in glimpses of Charley Chase and Max Davidson, two nearly forgotten second bananas from the Hal Roach studio.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up and dressed a pease pudding with boyled rabbets and bacon to dinner for want of a cook-mayde, Sarah leaving us at dawn, and he loving it mightily.
From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)
Likewise I doe approve of veale, mutton, kid, lambe, rabbets, young hare or leverits, &c.
From Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain by Rutherford, James
The rabbets are cut out with a rabbeting-plane before mitering and assembling.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
