Noun: rabbet
| Singular | rabbet |
| Plural | rabbets |
Sample Sentences
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Cut a deep rabbet along the back edge of the top and bottom of the cabinet. This will be for the ship-lap back to seat into and needs to be large enough to allow the back to be screwed or nailed into place. [2026 August 26, Logan Wittmer, “Whiskey Cabinet”, in Popular Woodworking, volume 290, number 4, page 54:]
Nouns inflected like rabbet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English rabeten, from Old French raboter, rabouter (“to thrust back”, verb), from Old French re- + boter, bouter. Doublet of rebut.
2. The noun is from Middle English rabet, from Old French rabot, from the verb. See: Middle English Nouns '
rabet'.