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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)
- 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)
- (transitive) To cut a rabbet in a piece of material.
Translations
Derived terms
- rabbeted
- rabbet joint
- rabbet plane
Etymology 2
Noun
rabbet (plural rabbets)
- 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.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish 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)
- 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.
- A bollard or bitt.
- 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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