society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > furnish with specific groove or channel (2)
transitive. To form a rabbet in; to provide with a rabbet; to cut away or down as in making a rabbet.
transitive. To make a rebate or rabbet in (a piece of wood, stone, etc.). Frequently passive in later use. Also intransitive.