rabbet
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The keel is 14 in. deep, the part below the rabbet of the garboard or lowest strakes of the planking, being 11 in. deep, and 4½ in. thick at the bottom.
From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by George C. V. Holmes
Fig. 266-33 Mortise and tenon with rabbet No. 34.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
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 rabbet plane, made by Carpenter, is traceable via another route, the U.S.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
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 Frank Cousins
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 side pieces are also rabbeted for the glass and the posts have grooves 1/2 in. deep cut in them to hold these side pieces.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
The back rails should, in addition, be rabbeted for the back board as shown.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
Mirror Frame and Standards Details The pieces for the mirror frame must be rabbeted 1/2 in. deep to take the glass, and the ends joined together with a miter at each corner.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I 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
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A rabbeting plane will be needed for this.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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
Fillister, fil′is-ter, n. a rabbeting plane used in making window-sashes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
These included "Planing, moulding, rabbeting, grooving, mortising, and sawing, both in coarse and fine work, in curved, winding, and transverse directions, and shaping wood in complicated forms."
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
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