rab

[ rab ]

/ ræb /

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a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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

“We are paying through the nose for prestige,” Goldrick-Rab said.
The Real College Crisis Isn’t About Student Loan Rates|Patricia Murphy|July 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Rab has the distinction of having studied his anatomy from the human body.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine|James J. Walsh
Rab, greatly frightened, asked the apparition (for it was a spirit that stood before him) what it wanted.
The Mysteries of All Nations|James Grant
After having obtained the degree of doctor and the title of Rab, he lectured on Talmudic law in Safed.
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ|Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.

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