rabbet
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Fig. 266-27 Dado tongue and rabbet No. 28.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
Cut them to fit the mortises in the posts, also rabbet the back rails for the backing.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
The entrance was cut out of a massive piece of rock, left thick on purpose, and on either side of the opening the edges still show the rabbet which was to receive the door.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers
The rabbet plane, made by Carpenter, is traceable via another route, the U.S.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
In an end-lap joint on rabbeted pieces the joint must be adapted to the rabbet.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The first range of planks laid upon a ship's bottom, next the keel, into which it is rabbeted, and into the stem and stern-post at the ends.
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
It will be noted that the edges of the lid are rabbeted.
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
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
They should be rabbeted for the lattice work and the glass.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
"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
A ledge and miter or lipped miter joint is made by rabbeting and mitering the boards to be joined so that the outer portion of the two boards meet in a miter.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The pieces by which this complicated machine is framed, are joined together in various places by scarfing, rabbeting, tenanting, and scoring.
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
A rabbeting plane will be needed for this.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 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
