Definition of "rabbet" []

• A cut or groove along or near the edge of a piece of wood that allows another piece to fit into it to form a joint. (noun)
• A joint so made. (noun)
• To cut a rabbet in. (verb-transitive)
• To join by a rabbet. (verb-transitive)
• To be joined by a rabbet. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""rabbet," ploughed around the front, back, and sides of the drawers; or the top frame may have a tongue fitting inside the whole substance of the drawer, or the glass may be a fixture, beaded or puttied in on top, the whole of the bottom unscrewing from the drawer frame."
• "Silly rabbet, everybody knows that it's the Realclimate Team who's politicizing the science, and besides, the deniers are simply honest broker skeptics who just want to know the truth."
• "Is a good place to start: Of course, rabbet will avoid the facts and he and other will go off on some tangential escapade."