rabbet
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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
After the hollowing out is completed, a rabbet one-eighth of an inch wide and deep is cut to receive the deck, its outer line being g h i k, Fig.
From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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 D'Anvers, N.
Set the fence and the stop at the desired width and depth of the rabbet.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
Fig. 266-27 Dado tongue and rabbet No. 28.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
