rabot
[rab-uh t]
- a hardwood block used for rubbing marble before polishing.
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Origin of rabot
< French: plane
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The French soldier is intelligent because he has imagination, and Rabot understood.
With Haig on the SommeD. H. Parry
It was during the struggle with Maximilian that the Rabot was constructed at Ghent, in 1489.
The Spell of FlandersEdward Neville Vose
Four marines only, out of the 60 in the reserve of Commander Rabot, succeeded in escaping.
DixmudeCharles Le Goffic
Meantime Rabot had come up with the others, who never guessed for a moment that he was not their own master.
The Olive Fairy BookVarious
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 AccusedVictor MacClure