rabbet
Americannoun
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a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
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a broad groove let into the surface of a board or the like; dado.
verb (used with object)
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to cut a rabbet in (a board or the like).
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to join (boards or the like) by means of a rabbet or rabbets.
verb (used without object)
noun
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a recess, groove, or step, usually of rectangular section, cut into a surface or along the edge of a piece of timber to receive a mating piece
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a joint made between two pieces of timber using a rabbet
verb
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to cut or form a rabbet in (timber)
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to join (pieces of timber) using a rabbet
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of rabbet
1350–1400; Middle English rabet < Old French rabat, derivative of rabattre to beat back, beat down; see rebate 1
Example Sentences
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Fig. 266-27 Dado tongue and rabbet No. 28.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The keel is 14 in. deep, the part below the rabbet of the garboard or lowest strakes of the planking, being 11 in. deep, and 4½ in. thick at the bottom.
From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by George C. V. Holmes
It also fits into a rabbet on the upper back side of the shelf.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
It warn't a week afore he wuz runnin' a rabbet and run right into it.
From A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The rabbet plane, made by Carpenter, is traceable via another route, the U.S.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
The meeting stiles and sometimes those on the opposite side have rabbeted joints, the latter fitting the jambs of the window frame.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
In gluing together boxes with rabbeted joints, Fig.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The first range of planks laid upon a ship's bottom, next the keel, into which it is rabbeted, and into the stem and stern-post at the ends.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The end rails should be rabbeted on the inside for the latticework and the glass.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
The front edges are rounded while the back edges are rabbeted on the inside as deep as the backing to be used.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
"All you need is one reasonably respectable wife," says Public Relations Wizard Gig Young, rabbeting in a plot gimmick designed to keep a flapdoodle comedy from collapsing in the first reel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also, without the rabbeting water may get under the cap, and pass along the top till a hole lets it among the bees.
From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby
Beading.—This part of the work pertains to surface finishings, and may or may not be used in connection with rabbeting.
From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe
For rabbeting and fillister work the upper holes q are used, while using ploughs the lower ones are brought into requisition.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
In place of matching heads, heads for beading, rabbeting, or fancy siding may then be used.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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