raboriousness.html - See: JACK-RABBIT START.

raboriousness.html - n. & v.
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a step-shaped channel etc. cut along the edge or face or projecting angle of a length of wood etc., usu. to receive the edge or tongue of another piece.

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tr. (rabbeted, rabbeting)
1 join or fix with a rabbet.
2 make a rabbet in.

rabbet plane a plane for cutting a groove along an edge. [ME f. OF rab(b)at abatement, recess f. rabattre REBATE]

raboriousness.html - n.
(pl. rabbis)
1 a Jewish scholar or teacher, esp. of the law.
2 a person appointed as a Jewish religious leader.

Chief Rabbi the religious head of the Jewish communities in Britain.

rabbinate n. [ME & OE f. eccl.L f. Gk rhabbi f. Heb. rabbí my master f. rab master + pronominal suffix]

raboriousness.html - adj.
of or relating to rabbis, or to Jewish law or teaching.

rabbinically adv.

raboriousness.html - n. & v.
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1 a any of various burrowing gregarious plant-eating mammals of the hare family, esp. Oryctolagus cuniculus, with long ears and a short tail, varying in colour from brown in the wild to black and white, and kept as a pet or for meat. b US a hare. c the fur of the rabbit.
2 Brit. colloq. a poor performer in any sport or game.

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intr. (rabbited, rabbiting)
1 hunt rabbits.
2 (often foll. by on, away) Brit. colloq. talk excessively or pointlessly; chatter (rabbiting on about his holiday).

rabbit punch a short chop with the edge of the hand to the nape of the neck. rabbit warren an area in which rabbits have their burrows, or are kept for meat etc.

rabbity adj. [ME perh. f. OF: cf. F dial. rabotte, Walloon robëte, Flem. robbe]

raboriousness.html - n.
1 a disorderly crowd; a mob.
2 a contemptible or inferior set of people.
3 (prec. by the) the lower or disorderly classes of the populace.

rabble-rouser a person who stirs up the rabble or a crowd of people in agitation for social or political change. rabble-rousing adj. tending to arouse the emotions of a crowd.

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the act or process of doing this. [ME: orig. uncert.]