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rabbet

[rab-it] / ˈræb ɪt /










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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

I promised Allworthy already to give up half my estate—od rabbet it!

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

It also fits into a rabbet on the upper back side of the shelf.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The sinking a rabbet in the dead-wood, wherein the heels of the timbers rest.

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

Daniel D. Whitker patented a combination saw and rabbet plane little different from one illustrated by André-Jacob Roubo in his L'Art du menuisier in 1769.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

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

All the masonry, except the rabbeted work, is constructed from the dark basalt which abounds in that district. 

From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn

The meeting stiles and sometimes those on the opposite side have rabbeted joints, the latter fitting the jambs of the window frame.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

The door frame is mitered at the corners and rabbeted on the inner edge to take the panel.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

The frames should be rabbeted on the inside for the latticework 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

The sides are to be built up separately, the corners being lapped and glued after rabbeting the under arrises sufficient to let the glass in.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

For rabbeting and fillister work the upper holes q are used, while using ploughs the lower ones are brought into requisition.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

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

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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