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 Noyes, William
The rabbet plane, made by Carpenter, is traceable via another route, the U.S.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
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 carpenter's dependence on this tool lessened only after the perfection of multipurpose metallic planes that could be readily converted to cut a "rabbet."
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
As with the plow and the rabbet, its shape is ubiquitous.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
