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RABBETTING

Volume 17 · 49 words · 1815 Edition

in Carpentry, the planing or cut- ting of channels or grooves in boards, &c.

In ship-carpentry, it signifies the letting in of the planks of the ship into the keel; which, in the rake and run of a ship, is hollowed away, that the planks may join the closer.