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A rabbet (American English) or rebate (British English) is a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machinable material, usually wood. When viewed in cross-section, a rabbet is two-sided and open to the edge or end of the surface into which it is cut.
A wood rabbet plane A rabbet or rebate. The rebate plane (British English) or rabbet plane (American English) is a hand plane designed for cutting rebates/rabbets in wood. It is a simple tool used in many Western countries with hundreds of years of history. It was in use in England at least as early as the 11th century. [citation needed]
The word rabbit derives from the Middle English rabet ("young of the coney"), a borrowing from the Walloon robète, which was a diminutive of the French or Middle Dutch robbe ("rabbit"), a term of unknown origin. [1] The term coney is a term for an adult rabbit used until the 18th century; rabbit once referred only to the young animals. [2]
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A through dado (left) and a stopped dado. A dado (US and Canada, / ˈ d eɪ d oʊ /), housing (UK) or trench (Europe) is a slot or trench cut into the surface of a piece of machinable material, usually wood.
The domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus) is the domesticated form of the European rabbit, a member of the lagomorph order. A male rabbit is known as a buck, a female as a doe, and a young rabbit as a kit. There are hundreds of rabbit breeds, originating from all over the world.
The European rabbit is the only rabbit to be widely domesticated, [99] for meat, fur, wool, [109] or as a pet. [110] It was first widely kept in ancient Rome from the first century BC, where Pliny the Elder described the use of rabbit hutches , along with enclosures called leporaria. [ 111 ]
The kits develop the same coloring after a few weeks, but they also have a white blaze that goes down their forehead; this marking eventually disappears. This rabbit is medium-sized, measuring 36–48 cm (14–19 in) in total length, including a small tail that averages 5.3 cm (2.1 in).