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rabbet plane

noun

, Carpentry.
  1. a plane for cutting rabbets or the like, having a blade set to one side at right angles or diagonally to the direction of motion.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rabbet plane1

First recorded in 1670–80
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Example Sentences

Other hand tools needed for the job included a rabbet plane No. 10, Japanese slick chisel, hand ripsaw and ryoba saw.

Also unintentional, but pleasing, is the distinctive throat of the rabbet plane—a design that developed to permit easy discharge of shavings, and one that mass manufacture did not destroy.

The Bead and Rabbet.—A more amplified form of work is available where the rabbet plane is used with the beader.

The rabbet plane, made by Carpenter, is traceable via another route, the U.S.

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