Quote:
|
Originally Posted by bobj3 Rebated
1. To cut a rabbet in.
2. To join by a rabbet.
========== |
Learn something new every day.
In almost 40 years of wood working I had never seen or heard rebate used for rabbet until I came to this forum. Frankly I had been writing it off as a typo.
After seeing BJ's note -- I walked out on the floor (I work in a library) and checked Websters Third International -- and The New Oxford American ---
SURE ENOUGH --- there it was rebate= variation of rabbet
But -- whichever way you say it -- is a rebate/rabbet not a two-sided notch cut along the edge or face of a board?
I ask --because the post where I pulled this quote - the poster was referring to mounting drawer support frames into dovetails cut into rebates in the sides.
To me a three-sided groove cut in a board has always been a dado (or just a groove).
No -- I am not being a smart mouth - it's a genuine question.
Since I didn't realize until today that a rabbet could be a rebate -
-- I have to wonder now if my definition is too narrow -
if a rabbet/rebate can also be a dado???