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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. examples
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. examples
Obsolete form of rabbit. quotations examples
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.
1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar