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rabbet

American  
[rab-it] / ˈræb ɪt /

noun

  1. 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.

  2. a broad groove let into the surface of a board or the like; dado.


verb (used with object)

rabbeted, rabbeting
  1. to cut a rabbet in (a board or the like).

  2. to join (boards or the like) by means of a rabbet or rabbets.

verb (used without object)

rabbeted, rabbeting
  1. to join by a rabbet (usually followed by on orover ).

rabbet British  
/ ˈræbɪt /

noun

  1. 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

  2. a joint made between two pieces of timber using a rabbet

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to cut or form a rabbet in (timber)

  2. to join (pieces of timber) using a rabbet

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of rabbet

1350–1400; Middle English rabet < Old French rabat, derivative of rabattre to beat back, beat down; see rebate 1

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Why, why? and where man, have you been? at a Poulters That you are cas'd thus like a rabbet?

From The Little French Lawyer A Comedy by Francis Beaumont

Set the fence and the stop at the desired width and depth of the rabbet.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The rabbet should therefore be plowed before the joint is made.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

After the 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.

From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The re-entering angle left upon the wood is called the rebate or rabbet.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

They should be rabbeted for the lattice work and the glass.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

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

With the studs rabbeted at the mill, the carpenter work is reduced to the simple task of sawing the boards and struts to length.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

Nigh to this, again, was a square building of rabbeted stones, equal to almost the largest in the walls of Jerusalem.

From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn

The frames 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

"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

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

A ledge and miter or lipped miter joint is made by rabbeting and mitering the boards to be joined so that the outer portion of the two boards meet in a miter.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

Fillister, fil′is-ter, n. a rabbeting plane used in making window-sashes.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Instead of rabbeting the mirror frame, a 1/4 by 3/8-in. fillet of oak is nailed around to form the recess, the walnut frame and oak fillet making a pretty contrast.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

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