rabbet
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The groove or rabbet of a screw; the breech-sight or notch cut on the base-ring of a gun, and also on the swell of the muzzle, by which the piece is laid.
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
A framing composed of coamings and head-ledges raised above the deck, with a top which shuts closely over into a rabbet.
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
The rabbet should therefore be plowed before the joint is made.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
A rabbet is made for the reception of the glass, and four strips of strap iron, overlapping both the glass, and the wood, and screwed to the wood, keep the glass in position.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various
It also fits into a rabbet on the upper back side of the shelf.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
In an end-lap joint on rabbeted pieces the joint must be adapted to the rabbet.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
Some are particularly strong, as those in the hold, which are mostly built with rabbeted or cyphered plank; others are light, and removable at pleasure.
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
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
Mirror Frame and Standards Details The pieces for the mirror frame must be rabbeted 1/2 in. deep to take the glass, and the ends joined together with a miter at each corner.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
Nigh to this, again, was a square building of rabbeted stones, equal to almost the largest in the walls of Jerusalem.
From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn
"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 pieces by which this complicated machine is framed, are joined together in various places by scarfing, rabbeting, tenanting, and scoring.
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
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
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
Also, without the rabbeting water may get under the cap, and pass along the top till a hole lets it among the bees.
From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby
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