rabbet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæb.ɪt/

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• Homophone: rabbit
• Rhymes: -æbɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English rabeten, from Old French raboter, rabouter (“to thrust back”, verb), from Old French re- + boter, bouter. Doublet of rebut.

The noun is from Middle English rabet, from Old French rabot, from the verb.

Noun

rabbet (plural rabbets)

1. 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.

   Synonym: rebate

   Coordinate terms: mortise, tenon

A rabbet (rebate) for joining wood

Translations

channel, groove of recess in e.g. wood

• Albanian: vanë f
• Bulgarian: жлеб (bg) m (žleb), фалц (bg) m (falc)
• Danish: fals m
• Finnish: huullos (fi)
• French: feuillure (fr) f
• German: Nutnaht f, Falz (de) m
• Italian: addentellato (it) m
• Māori: awaniao
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fals m

• Old Norse: gátt f
• Polish: wpust m, wręg (pl) m, rowek (pl) m
• Russian: шпу́нт (ru) m (špúnt)
• Swedish: fals (sv) c
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: ییو (yiv)

Verb

rabbet (third-person singular simple present rabbets, present participle rabbeting, simple past and past participle rabbeted)

1. (transitive) To cut a rabbet in a piece of material.

   Synonym: rebate

Translations

cut a rabbet

• Albanian: vetulloj (sq)
• Finnish: huultaa (fi)
• Italian: addentellare (it)
• Polish: wycinać wręg impf, wyciąć wręg pf
• Russian: шпунтова́ть (ru) n (špuntovátʹ), фальцева́ть (ru) n (falʹcevátʹ)

Derived terms

• rabbeted
• rabbeter
• rabbet joint
• rabbet plane
• unrabbeted

Etymology 2

Noun

rabbet (plural rabbets)

1. Obsolete form of rabbit.
   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar:

     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.

Anagrams

• barbet