A cavity, hole, or recess into which the end of some other part of a framework or structure is fitted so as to form a joint. Also: a groove or slot…

Scottish. A piece of stone (or occasionally timber) cut and shaped so as to form one side of an opening in a wall and accommodate a door, gate…

A recess or step cut along or into the edge of a piece of wood, stone, or other material and usually intended to form a joint with another piece…

Building. A plain flat set-off or rebate in a wall, or in a foundation or bank of earth. Also transferred a flat ledge projecting from the face of a…

A groove or long hollow, esp. one cut in wood or stone.

Channelling, fluting, grooving; concrete = chamfer, n. 1. Obsolete.

(a) = sense 1; †(b) figurative an obscure place (obsolete).

A channel, recess, or ledge cut into a piece of stone, a wall, etc. Cf. rebate, n.2

A small groove, channel, gutter, furrow, such as may be cut in wood or stone. Obsolete.

Carpentry and Building. (? U.S.) A notch, groove, niche (see quots.).

Nautical and Mechanics (a) The groove of a block or dead-eye round which the rope passes; (b) a notch or groove made in a piece of timber or…

= chamfer, n. 1 2.

blind holes in Mechanics: holes not coincident in plates to be riveted together.

A groove made to receive something which lies within or passes through it: e.g. A groove cut in the face of a wall, to receive a pipe, etc.