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Example sentences for "rabbet"

Lexicographically close words:
raal; raaly; raam; raand; rabbeted; rabbets; rabbin; rabbinate; rabbinic
  1. Letting one piece of timber into another with a rabbet to give additional strength or finish.

  2. 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.

  3. There is a rabbet in their inside upper edge, to receive the hatches or gratings.

  4. The sinking a rabbet in the dead-wood, wherein the heels of the timbers rest.

  5. 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.

  6. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty.

  7. Black velvet is pasted in the rabbet of the door to insure a light-tight joint when the door is closed.

  8. How to Make a Rabbet Plane A rabbet plane is very little used by mechanics, but when it is wanted for a piece of work, it is wanted badly.

  9. While doing an unusual piece of work I needed a rabbet plane, and having none, I made a plane as shown in the sketch in less time than it would have taken to go out and borrow one.

  10. The edges of the opening have a rabbet to receive first a ground glass and then the negative, both being held in place with turn buttons.

  11. After cutting a groove for the chisel blade and turning in a long wood screw as shown, to hold the chisel in place, I had as good a rabbet plane as could be purchased.

  12. One cushion is fastened near the top, one near the bottom, and one in the center, in the rabbet of the door frame.

  13. The rabbet in the horizontal strips should not be so deep as to permit the extending edge to overlap the ground-glass frame, thus preventing it from moving back as the plate holder is inserted.

  14. Mrs. Rabbet sighed, and endeavored, I think, to recollect whether it was Ingomar or Spartacus that Shakespeare wrote.

  15. It consumed perhaps a half-hour; and when we two at last relinquished Mrs. Rabbet to her husband's charge, it was with a feeling not altogether unakin to relief.

  16. I warn you, before entering the ministry, Mr. Rabbet was accounted an excellent shot.

  17. Mrs. Rabbet said toward the end that it was a most enjoyable chat, although to me it appeared to partake rather of the nature of a monologue.

  18. A, so when fastened together concentrically an inner rabbet is formed for the reception of the lens and an outer rabbet to fit against the board C in and against which it rotates being held in place by buttons, DD.

  19. A more amplified form of work is available where the rabbet plane is used with the beader.

  20. A rabbet is formed to receive the edge of the panel, and a molding is then secured to the other side on the panel, to hold the latter in place.

  21. Rabbet may not be somewhere else, harrying a defenseless barkeeper, or superintending the making of dress-shirt protectors for the Hottentots, or doing something else clerical, when we get to the rectory?

  22. Mrs. Rabbet isn't a day under forty-nine.

  23. To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

  24. This passes into a rabbet to receive it, cut, on the remaining three sides, at the back of the lower edge of the moulding.

  25. A pane of glass rests upon a circular rabbet turned out to receive it, leaving uncovered the part beyond the partition.

  26. The height of the lower compartment, measuring from the rabbet of the floor board, reaches to the top of the stock-box, except just as much as will allow the slides to pass over its edge.

  27. The cover is retained in its place by a rabbet cut round the top of the stock-box, and preventing the admission of wet.

  28. A rabbet of a quarter of an inch is cut round all the crown-boards, to receive a super box, or the roof cover; the better to retain it in its place.

  29. Displacement (to two feet above rabbet of keel) 5.

  30. The following is the performance at draught of water 2 feet above rabbet of keel: Boiler pressure 90 lb.

  31. For a long time Rabbet had been torturing him, and in despair, or perhaps for lack of a god that completely satisfied his ideas, he had at last decided for this one.

  32. And then he secretly charged Rabbet with the misfortune of his life.

  33. The sliding section is not always necessary, as in a narrow rabbet or bead.

  34. It is practicable, if a rabbet or mitered joint is used in the sides, but if the side pieces are butted or dadoed, the rabbet for the bottom shows.

  35. Or the front may be attached to the sides with a dado tongue and rabbet joint, Fig.

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

  37. X, and a rabbet on the other, Y, in such a way that the projecting parts of both members will fit tight in the returns of the other member.

  38. It also fits into a rabbet on the upper back side of the shelf.

  39. On the sides of each drawer a pocket is cut on the inner surface, which communicates through an opening in the rabbet with the interior.

  40. They are held upon the bottoms by a rabbet placed inside of the bottom and nearly reaching the lower surface of the glass on the cover when closed.

  41. Whitker patented a combination saw and rabbet plane little different from one illustrated by André-Jacob Roubo in his L'Art du menuisier in 1769.

  42. Inherent in the bench planes is a feeling of motion, particularly in the plow and the rabbet where basic design alone conveys the idea that they were meant to move over fixed surfaces.

  43. The rabbet plane, made by Carpenter, is traceable via another route, the U.

  44. Also unintentional, but pleasing, is the distinctive throat of the rabbet plane--a design that developed to permit easy discharge of shavings, and one that mass manufacture did not destroy.

  45. Stanley bull-nose rabbet plane for getting close into corners, and Fig.

  46. Rabbet plane, a joiner's plane for cutting a rabbet.

  47. Level line (Shipbuilding), the outline of a section which is horizontal crosswise, and parallel with the rabbet of the keel lengthwise.

  48. Hooding end (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.

  49. Cut tenons on the end rails and rabbet them and the side pieces for the panels.

  50. Rabbet these pieces sufficient to allow the art glass to set in on the back sides and be fastened--about 1/4 in.

  51. Cut them to fit the mortises in the posts, also rabbet the back rails for the backing.

  52. In both mouldings, a rabbet 1/2 inch or so wide and 1/8 inch deep should be made with rabbet plane.

  53. A rabbet is cut on the inner edge of the rails, and a corresponding groove ploughed in the legs.

  54. In making picture frames of simple cross section, it is first necessary to cut the rabbet (Fig.

  55. There are special planes, called rabbet planes, and plows for doing this kind of work, but it is good practice for beginners to use the chisel.

  56. The panel may be of one piece, set into the rabbet and grooves.

  57. Making picture frames] In the figure, the triangles a a are waste, the rabbet being indicated by the dotted line.

  58. A quarter-inch rabbet was cut on the four edges of both top and bottom.

  59. When the box was taken out of the hand screws next day the rabbet allowed top and bottom to fit sides and ends as shown in g (Fig.

  60. This construction left a quarter-inch rabbet all around the top and bottom of the box.

  61. When the hand screws were removed again, all traces of glue in the rabbet were carefully taken off with a sharp chisel.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rabbet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.