RABBET
\ɹˈabɪt], \ɹˈabɪt], \ɹ_ˈa_b_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of RABBET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.
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A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate.
By Oddity Software
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To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.
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A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate.
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Same as joint, below.
By Noah Webster.
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A groove or cut, made in the edge of one plank, etc., so that another may fit into it.
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To join, as parts cut or grooved to fit together.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Joinery. To cut a rectangular groove in.
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A groove cut to receive the edge of an adjoining piece; a joint so made.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A joint; a groove cut longitudinally in a piece of timber to receive the edge of a plank.
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To pare down the edge of a board for the purpose of receiving the edge of another piece. Rabbet-plane, a plane used for the purpose.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In carpentry, a groove cut in the edge of a piece of timber or plank in order that it may lap over, or evenly fit, another like piece; that part of the keel, stern, and stern-post of a ship which is cut for the plank of the bottom to fit into.
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To lap over and unite by a rabbet.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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