rabbet

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

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; a rebate.

verb

1. (transitive) To cut a rabbet in a piece of material.

Etymology 2

noun

1. Obsolete form of rabbit.
   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