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Rabbet   Listen
noun
Rabbet  n.  
1.
(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.
2.
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)  
1.
To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.
2.
To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint.






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"Rabbet" Quotes from Famous Books



... now Cousin? Why, why? and where man, have you been? at a Poulters That you are cas'd thus like a rabbet? I could laugh now, And I shall laugh, for all I have lost my Children, ...
— The Little French Lawyer - A Comedy • Francis Beaumont

... brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple^, link, yoke, bracket; marry &c (wed) 903; bridge over, span. braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase^; graft, ingraft^, inosculate^; entwine, intwine^; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist^, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... fox of the plains or kit fox, Antelope, Sheep, beaver, Common Otter, Sea Otter, minks, Seals racoons, large Grey Squerrel, Small brown Squirrel, Small grey Squirrel, Ground Squirrel, Sewelel, Braro, rat, mouse, mole, hare, rabbet, and pole Cat or Skunk. all of which Shall be Severally noticed in the order in which they occur as well as Such others as I learn do exist, and which not ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al



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