rabbit2t (rabit)

[OF. (and F.) rabot, a plasterers' beater: see rabbet.] 1. A wooden implement used in mixing mortar. Cotgrave. -2. A wooden can used as a drinking-ve el. Strong beer in rabits and cheating penny IMG:content-1530.jpg:[blocks in formation] Praise of Yorkshire Ale (1697), р. 1. [( Hall i well.) rabbit3 (rab'it), v. t. [Appar. a corruption of rabate (ef. rabbet ), used as a vague imprecation.] An interjectional imperative, equivalent to confound. " 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. (Latham.) Rabbit me, I am no soldier. Scott .