2. Verb. (third-person singular of rabbet) ¹
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Definition of Rabbets
1. rabbet [v] - See also: rabbet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabbets
Literary usage of Rabbets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Compleat City and Country Cook: Or, Accomplish'd House-wife. Containing by Charles Carter (1732)
"rabbets with Onions. ... and chop them and butter them very well ; put in a Gill
of Cream, fo ferve your rabbets, and cover them over with Onions. ..."
2. The History of the Island of Minorca by John Armstrong (1752)
"... the rabbets, that were multiplied here to fuch a Degree, that they had eat up
the Corn, ... rabbets ..."
3. The Bee-keeper's Manual: Or, Practical Hints on the Management and Complete by Henry Taylor (1860)
"... stock-box is enclosed by four panels, mo up and down in grooves or rabbets,
cut in corner pilasters, the latter being attached to box. Separated Plan. ..."
4. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"The rabbets penetrate the second fascia by 0.028 in., this dimension diminishes
from ca. 0.459 in. (0.320 + 0. 1 39 in.) at the bottom to ca. 0.425 m. ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1902)
"Sir, Since I wrote to you, I have taken or deliver'd the ix>or Woman of three
more rabbets, all three half grown, one of them a dunn Rabbet; the last leap'd ..."
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