rab

[ rab ]

/ ræb /

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noun

a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.

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Origin of rab

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

Words nearby rab

R2P, Ra, Raab, R.A.A.F., Raamses, rab, rabal, rabat, rabato, Rabaul, Rabbah

How to use rab in a sentence

“We are paying through the nose for prestige,” Goldrick-Rab said.
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Rab has the distinction of having studied his anatomy from the human body.
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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.
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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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