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noun

Rabbet n.

(Carp.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate.

Same as Rabbet joint, below.

Rabbet joint (Carp.), a joint formed by fitting together rabbeted boards or timbers; called also rabbet.

Rabbet plane, a joiner's plane for cutting a rabbet.

verb

Rabbet v. t. (past & past part. rabbeted; pres. part. rabbeting)

To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint.

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Etymology of 'Rabbet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rabbet" Quotes from Famous Books

... (the bottom-board will be described in another chapter.) The tops should be all alike; boards fifteen inches square are just the right size; three-fourths of an inch is the best thickness, (inch will do;) plane the upper side, rabbet out around the edge of the upper side one inch wide, and three-eighths deep; this will leave the top inside the rabbeting, ...

— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby

... hollowing out is completed, a rabbet one-eighth of an inch wide and deep is cut to receive the deck, its outer line being g h i k, Fig. 1. Then a light deck beam is set in amidships, the mast step put in, and the inside of the hull and the bottom of the deck painted. The deck is of pine, one-eighth of an inch thick, and after ...

— Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... of these Glossographists would oblige the World with a Folio Treatise or two, on the Word Rabbet: We shall then know whether it is to be spelt with an e, or an i. For, to the Shame of the English Tongue and this learned Age, our most eminent Physicians, Surgeons, Anatomists and Men Midwives, have all been to seek in ...

— A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) • Anonymous