Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rabbet

1 sense of rabbet

Sense 1
rabbet, rebate -- (a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together)
       => groove, channel -- (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb rabbet

2 senses of rabbet

Sense 1
rabbet -- (join with a rabbet joint)
       => join, bring together -- (cause to become joined or linked; "join these two parts so that they fit together")

Sense 2
rabbet -- (cut a rectangular groove into)
       => cut out -- (form and create by cutting out; "Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper")