A more thoroughly workmanlike way is to groove the bottom into the sides, the upright partitions into the floor boards, and to cut rabbets around on the back edge of the sides, roof, and bottom, into which to set the backboards.
The rabbets on each side should be cut with care, trying to get the sides alike and to cut accurately to the lines marked.
A back can be fitted into rabbets as described above, but in this case it had best not come above the top shelf, a rabbet being cut on the under edge of the latter as well as in the sides.
If the edges of the doors are made to lap slightly where they come together, rabbets being cut on opposite sides of the edges (Fig.
Alter the rabbets if necessary to get them in line.
The glass can be held in place by strips, or small rabbets can be cut as in a window sash.
The rabbet-plane, which is used to cut rabbets, as the name indicates, is a useful tool, but in most cases you can dispense with it by having rabbets cut at a mill.
If you make the doors with glass panels, as shown, these can be set in rabbets cut on the inside of the door frames and held in place by strips of "quarter-round" moulding.
Give these rabbets a good coat of white-lead paint.
Rabbets should be cut to receive the back, as in the case of the wall-shelf just shown (see Rabbet), the top and middle shelves being narrower than the lower shelf by the thickness of the back.
Next, by the use of winding-sticks placed on each of these rabbets you can easily see whether they are in line (see Winding-sticks).
Those ends of planks which are let into the rabbets of the stem, the stern-posts, &c.
The ends of the planks which fit into the rabbets of the stem and stern posts.
While they are thus engaged, the frames must be very gently pried by a stick, from their attachments to the rabbets on which they rest; this may be done without any jar and without wounding or enraging a single bee.
At first, I used movable slats or bars placed onrabbets in the front and back of the hive.
In removing the frames from the hive, it will be found very convenient to have a box with suitable rabbets in which they may be temporarily put, and covered over with a piece of cotton cloth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rabbets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
