rabbit (1)

i. [RABBIT, 8.] To hunt or ferret for rabbits. "To look at them fishing or rabbiting ." -Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford , ch. xxx. *răb'-bit (2), v. t. [See def.] A verb occurring only in the imperative mood, and used as an interjection = Confound! Its reduplicated forms, drab bit and od - rabbit (= God confound), are frequently abbreviated into drat (itself probably contract. from Od (=God) rot ). "" Rabbit the fellow,' cries he, 'I thought by his talking so much about riches, that he had a hundred pounds at least in his pocket." "-Fielding: Joseph Andrews.