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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rabbet plane¹

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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

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