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rabbet

[rab-it] / ˈræb ɪt /










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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 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 Holmes, George C. V.

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 Noyes, William

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

The rabbet should therefore be plowed before the joint is made.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William




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