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rabbet

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??æb?t/
  • Rhymes: -æb?t
  • Homophones: rabbit

Etymology 1

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

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.
Translations

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.
Translations

Derived terms

  • rabbeted
  • rabbet joint
  • rabbet plane

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

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knighthead

English

Etymology

knight +? head; sometimes decorated with a carving of a man's head.

Noun

knighthead (plural knightheads)

  1. A mitred backing timber which extends the after line of the rabbet in the stem to give extra support to the ends of the planks and the bowsprit.
  2. A bollard or bitt.
  3. Either of two timbers rising from the keel of a sailing ship and supporting the inner end of the bowsprit.

References

http://www.seatalk.info/cgi-bin/nautical-marine-sailing-dictionary/db.cgi?db=db&view_records=1&uid=default&Term=knighthead&submit=Look+it+up%21https://web.archive.org/web/20050326230138/http://www.bartleby.com/61/99/K0089900.html

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