rabbet
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The rabbet at the end of the piece X is cut not the entire width of the piece Y, but only the width of the lap,—c-f = a-e.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
A rabbet is made for the reception of the glass, and four strips of strap iron, overlapping both the glass, and the wood, and screwed to the wood, keep the glass in position.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various
The rabbet should therefore be plowed before the joint is made.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The rabbet plane, made by Carpenter, is traceable via another route, the U.S.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
Letting one piece of timber into another with a rabbet to give additional strength or finish.
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 corners are mitered and the backs rabbeted to receive the panels.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
In a mortise-and-tenon joint on rabbeted pieces, Fig.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
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
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
"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
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
Also, without the rabbeting water may get under the cap, and pass along the top till a hole lets it among the bees.
From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby
A rabbeting plane will be needed for this.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
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