rabbet
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Those fitted in a rabbet to the outside of the quarter-gallery doors, with the object of keeping out the sea, in case of the gallery being carried away.
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
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
As with the plow and the rabbet, its shape is ubiquitous.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
Cut tenons on the end rails and rabbet them and the side pieces for the panels.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
Fig. 266-27 Dado tongue and rabbet No. 28.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
