rabbet

Set the fence and the stop at the desired width and depth of the rabbet.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The rabbet at the end of the piece X is cut not the entire width of the piece Y, but only the width of the lap,—c-f = a-e.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The groove or rabbet of a screw; the breech-sight or notch cut on the base-ring of a gun, and also on the swell of the muzzle, by which the piece is laid.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The re-entering angle left upon the wood is called the rebate or rabbet.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

The carpenter's dependence on this tool lessened only after the perfection of multipurpose metallic planes that could be readily converted to cut a "rabbet."

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

Some are particularly strong, as those in the hold, which are mostly built with rabbeted or cyphered plank; others are light, and removable at pleasure.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

In a mortise-and-tenon joint on rabbeted pieces, Fig.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

It is rabbeted on the back to hold a 20 by 38-in. mirror.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

With the studs rabbeted at the mill, the carpenter work is reduced to the simple task of sawing the boards and struts to length.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

There were, however, some ancient rabbeted stones lying near. 

From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn

"All you need is one reasonably respectable wife," says Public Relations Wizard Gig Young, rabbeting in a plot gimmick designed to keep a flapdoodle comedy from collapsing in the first reel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beading.—This part of the work pertains to surface finishings, and may or may not be used in connection with rabbeting.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe

In place of matching heads, heads for beading, rabbeting, or fancy siding may then be used.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

A ledge and miter or lipped miter joint is made by rabbeting and mitering the boards to be joined so that the outer portion of the two boards meet in a miter.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

A rabbeting plane will be needed for this.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor