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Rabet(t, -at(t, n. Also: -eit, -it, -ott, -ed(d, -aid; rabbet(t; raebet; rebet(t, -at(t, -it, -eat, -eth, -aid, -ut; rebbet, -it(t; ribett. [ME and e.m.E. rabit (in rabitstok; north., 1404), rabet (Prompt. Parv.), rabbett (1538), rabott (1593–4), also rebate (1674) with accent on second syllable, a groove cut to receive the edge of something in-set, also attrib. in rabbet-plain (1678), etc., OF rabat act of beating down, recess in a wall, etc., also Rab(b)at n.1, f. rabattre.Also in the later dial. as rybat, etc., but in Scots the accent seems to have remained on the first syllable.] A rabbet. Also b. attrib. and comb.A piece of hewn stone dressed to form one side of an opening left in a wall, and prepared to receive (the frame of) a door, window or chimney; a side-piece of timber to perform the same function; a jamb.Dowble (dowe) rabett, ?Also comb. with stane (also, once, stane rebeth).(1) c1420 Wynt. iii 332.
To the yhattis … he past … And thare he made than rak for rak Quhyll conyhe and rabet bath he brak
1453 Aberd. B. Rec. MS V i p. 182 (21 Aug.).
Lat him mak his rabatis of his yhet redy and he sal haue licence to put thaim in the said Adamys gavill
1512 Prot. Bk. J. Foular II 150.
Lintale rabits soile and put for a loft dure
1530 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 38.
For lang aislaris and rabettis muildry
Ib. 47.
xxx peis greit rabeit for muyldry
1530–1 Yester Wr. 144.
[He] brak the lyntellis of chymlayis the rabatis of durris and wyndois
1532 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 113.
For v dosane of aslar for rabetis and cunyeis
1538 Edinb. Guild Ct. July.
Ordanis the said Maister Johne to remoif the sole and rabettis ferrar eist
1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II 303.
To ane masoun to hew the saids rabatts and lintale and to reforme the said yet and caip it
1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 27.
Rabbettis
1621 Murray Lyon Hist. Lodge Edinb. 34.
Schort stanes, that is to say, rabits and stanes of chimlays
1672 Stirling Common Good 76b.
Rabotts
(b) 1553–4 Edinb. Old Acc. I 112.
For hewing of xxviij rebettis and twa lang lintellis to … yettis
1585 Perth B. Ct. 8 April.
The eist syd vall of the said masone ludge fra James Hepburnis ȝearde dyke vnto the north syde of the rebett of vmquhile James Cokis ȝearde ȝett
Ib. 19 May.
The said Johne sall haif ane bowell within the boundis of the said dur and hewyng rebaidis thairof of lenth & breid biggit of auld
1620 Edinb. Test. L 287.
Of hewin stane werk sic as soleis rebatis [etc.]
1622 Aberd. B. Rec. II 379.
Aisler stanes … thairof thrie scoir sevin peice long wark for lintellis and nowellis, and the remanent schort wark for rebbittis
1635 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 47.
Three timber rebbets of wod
1636 Kirkcaldy Presb. 102.
For … stanes to be cunyies, rebuts, lintells, and peatstanes to the high chalmer
1644 Tulliallan Coal Wks. 77b.
Rebeats
(c) 1635 Reg. Privy C. MS 7 Aug.
In the goldhous … , Ane timber ribett
(d) 1705 Foulis Acc. Bk. 385.
Raebets
(2) 1535–6 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 136.
lxviii dowble rabedis
Ib. 142.
Nowellis lyntellis dowe rabeddis
1633 Ib. II 375.
To him for wining of ane … stone. … Mair to him for ane great dowble rebit, xiii s. iiii d.
b. (1) 1554–5 Edinb. Old Acc. I 141.
Rebatts stanis
Ib. 142.
Twa greit rebatt stanis
1573 Prot. Bk. Thomas Johnsoun 173.
Rabaidis stanes
1607 Dunferm. B. Rec. II 41.
Twelf guid and sufficient rebat stainnis ilkane thairof fyve futes of length
1558–9 Edinb. Old Acc. I 295.
xvj stanis rebeth
(2) 1615 Edinb. Test. XLIX 14.
Thrie rebet plaines

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