rabbet
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English rabeten, from Old French raboter, rabouter (“to thrust back”, verb), from Old French re- + boter, bouter.
The noun is from Middle English rabet, from Old French rabot, from the verb.
Noun edit
rabbet (plural rabbets)
- A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of a plank of wood or other material; especially, one intended to fit another member to form a joint.
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channel, groove of recess in e.g. wood
Verb edit
rabbet (third-person singular simple present rabbets, present participle rabbeting, simple past and past participle rabbeted)
- (transitive) To cut a rabbet in a piece of material.
- Synonym: rebate
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cut a rabbet
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Noun edit
rabbet (plural rabbets)
- Obsolete form of rabbit.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar:
- I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a fryar.