Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of plane used for grooving timber or for rebates.
- noun A rabbet on the outer edge of a sash-bar to hold the glass and the putty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty.
- noun A plane for making a rabbet.
- noun a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rabbet /rebate for holding asash window
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Examples
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For special functions within the joint they may be provided with bore holes to receive fillister-head screws.
2. Kinds of Feather Keys and Profile Shafts Frank Wenghfer 1990
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The keys are fixed by countersunk fillister-head screws, so that a displacement of the key in the keyway is prevented.
3. Kinds of Feather Key Joints Frank Wenghfer 1990
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Rebating planes are the moving fillister, the sash fillister, the common rebating plane, the side rebating plane.
Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh
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None was more appealing than D.niel D. Whitker's saw-rabbet plane (pat. 52,478) which combined "an adjustable saw with an adjustable fence or gage, both being attached to a stock with handle similar to a plane, forming together a tool combining the properties of the joiner's plow and fillister" (fig. 61).
Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh
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-- 1832: THE WORKBENCH DELINEATED BY NICHOLSON was little improved over Moxon's, although the planes -- jack (1), trying plane (2), smoothing plane (3), sash fillister (7), and plow
Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh
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For "filister" read "fillister"; according to more or less contemporary dictionaries, it is a misspelling.
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