rabot

[ rab-uh t ]

/ ˈræb ət /

a hardwood block used for rubbing marble before polishing.

Nearby words

< French: plane

During the illness of the Rabot boy she had said that the child was worse than anyone imagined, and that he would never recover.
She Stands Accused|Victor MacClure
Meantime Rabot had come up with the others, who never guessed for a moment that he was not their own master.
The Olive Fairy Book|Various
The French soldier is intelligent because he has imagination, and Rabot understood.
With Haig on the Somme|D. H. Parry
Rabot agreed, nodding his head as though to say: "Oh, yes, it's a hard thing to bring up!"
Original Short Stories, Volume 11 (of 13)|Guy de Maupassant

To bar the way to the bridges of Dixmude, Commander Rabot, with a battalion, hurried to the support of the left wing of the front.
Dixmude|Charles Le Goffic