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  • noun Plural form of rabbet.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rabbet.

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Examples

  • Mrs. Brazil, you look like smart woman; hoot two rabbets with one bullet;

    Florida delegates file lawsuit to get delegation seated 2008

  • My favorite part was when the reporter said "While this little guy is obviously a pit, eli rabbets in this country are huge pists"

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • Take a couple of young rabbets and half roast them; when they are cold take off the skin, and cut the rabbets in small pieces,

    English Housewifery 2004

  • Tongues and rabbets are worked by means of the rabbet plane.

    7. Planing of Profiles Rolf Jakoby 1993

  • If rabbets are worked manually, a straight, square strip (straightedge) must be mounted onto the workpiece as gauge for the accurate - to-size guidance of the rabbet plane.

    7. Planing of Profiles Rolf Jakoby 1993

  • The bench planes, smoothing planes, rabbets, and plows universally resemble those shown in this illustration from the pattern book of the Castle Hill Works, Sheffield.

    Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh

  • Up and dressed a pease pudding with boyled rabbets and bacon to dinner for want of a cook-mayde, Sarah leaving us at dawn, and he loving it mightily.

    The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

  • By means of two rabbets, one fixed at the open end of the gallery and the other in the center, the testing chamber could be made either large or small by means of paper disks pasted on to the first or second rabbet.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 Various

  • The rabbets are cut out with a rabbeting-plane before mitering and assembling.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • The ribs spring from the solid mass of their own floors bolted in between the keelson and the keel; and the planking, or skin, is let into the rabbets, or side grooves, of the keel and firmly fastened to the ribs throughout by hardwood pegs called treenails.

    All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways William Charles Henry Wood 1905

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