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Rabbet   Listen
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Rabbet  v. t.  (past & past part. rabbeted; pres. part. rabbeting)  
1.
To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.
2.
To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint.





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"Rabbet" Quotes from Famous Books



... (the bottom-board will be described in another chapter.) The tops should be all alike; boards fifteen inches square are just the right size; three-fourths of an inch is the best thickness, (inch will do;) plane the upper side, rabbet out around the edge of the upper side one inch wide, and three-eighths deep; this will leave the top inside the rabbeting, ...
— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby
... 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. 1. Then a light deck beam is set in amidships, the mast step put in, and the inside of the hull and the bottom of the deck painted. The deck is of pine, one-eighth of an inch thick, and after ...
— Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various


Words linked to "Rabbet" :   cut out, rebate, groove, square and rabbet, rabbet plane


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