rab

[ rab ]

noun

1. a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rab¹

First recorded in 1815–25, rab is from the French word rabot

Example Sentences

“We are paying through the nose for prestige,” Goldrick-Rab said.

From The Daily Beast

Rab has the distinction of having studied his anatomy from the human body.

From Project Gutenberg

Rab, greatly frightened, asked the apparition (for it was a spirit that stood before him) what it wanted.

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After having obtained the degree of doctor and the title of Rab, he lectured on Talmudic law in Safed.

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I need hardly add, that the story of Rab and his Friends is in all essentials strictly matter of fact.

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Did we serve our God with half the zeal Rab served his, we might trust to sleep as peacefully in our graves as he does in his.

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