Sentence examples for rabbet from inspiring English sources

Alignment of the shafts is usually achieved by means of a short cylindrical projection (rabbet joint) on the face of one flange that fits snugly into a circular recess on the face of the other flange.

Made of solid oak with dovetail and rabbet joints to provide strength and stability, the basic unit measures about 30 by 30 by 10.6 inches and is $1,650.

When I started the process I had no idea what "rabbet" meant.

What if I had chosen the wrong rabbet?

Eventually into my shopping cart went a "black maple frame, rabbet one inch," Arctic white matting and non-glare plexiglass.

After I learned that a rabbet was a notch around the back of a frame that the glass and artwork sits in, I even got panicky because I still couldn't quite figure out why it was important for me to know its particular dimension.

Then there was the awesome responsibility of rabbet selection.

I was so intrigued that I closed up my house in February 1999 and went to live here, 750 miles away, beginning as an apprentice boat builder on a gray snowy day in an unheated, partially enclosed shop filled with wood shavings, sawdust and the hand tools that are unique to wooden boatyards: adzes, rabbet planes, caulking irons.

In the early 19th century, for example, a joiner had dozens of planes in his kit to deal with the many moldings, rabbets, and jointings he had to produce before the day of machine-made stock and mill-planed lumber.

He said not to worry about rabbets.

Nobody mentioned rabbets.