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▪ I. † rabat, n.1 Obs. rare—0. Also 5 rabet. [a. F. rabot = Pg. rabôte.] A carpenter's plane.
c1440Promp. Parv. 421/2 Rabet, yryne tool of carpentrye, runcina. 1530Palsgr. 260/1 Rabat an yrone for a carpentar, rabot. 1572Huloet, Rabat, a playne that carpenters vse, runcina. ▪ II. rabat, n.2 Obs. exc. Hist. rare. Also 6 rabbat. [a. F. rabat a turned-down collar.] a. = rebato. (Recent Dicts. give rabat in senses of the mod.F. word.)
1578Inv. R. Wardr. (1815) 231 Huidis quaiffis collaris rabattis. Ibid. 234 Ane rabbat of hollane claith. 1865F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace viii. 126 Suddenly, at the court of Henry [III of France], the fraise gave way to the rabat, or turn-down collar. 1953M. Powys Lace & Lace-Making vii. 77 With the coming of the wig or natural long curled hair the ruff was given up and men wore their lace in front falling under the chin in the form first of a cravat or Rabat and later in ruffles. b. A type of turned-down clerical collar. Also, = stock n.1 44 b. Also, a similar garment worn by a layman.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1931D. Attwater Catholic Encycl. Dict. 441/1 Rabat... Part of the dress of the French secular clergy. A white rabat is worn by the Brothers of Christian Doctrine, university professors, magistrates, barristers and attorneys. 1936J. G. Cozzens Men & Brethren 122 You can go courting, if you like; but you have to go in a rabat, so to say. 1966H. Kemelman Saturday the Rabbi went Hungry (1967) ii. 18 In spite of the clerical collar and black silk rabat, he looked more like a football player than an Anglican minister. 1975New Yorker 3 Feb. 23/1 He is dressed in an ultra-attractive robin's-egg-blue rabat and brown velvet suit. ▪ III. rabat, v. Geom.|rəˈbæt| Also rebat(e. [ad. F. rabattre to lower, fold back, rabat.] trans. To rotate (a plane) about its line of intersection with another plane, spec. the horizontal plane, until the two coincide. Hence raˈbatted ppl. a., raˈbatting vbl. n. Also raˈbatment, the process of rabatting.
1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 801/1 In rabatting the plane π3 its trace OB with the plane π2 will come to the position OD. 1908L. N. G. Filon Introd. Projective Geom. i. 7 For practical purposes..it is convenient to rotate one of the two planes about x until it coincides with the other plane. A figure in the former plane rotates with it, but is fixed in it. Such a process is termed rabatting. Ibid., If..we rabat the figure 2 upon the plane a1 we obtain a new figure 3 in the plane a1. Ibid. 10 Locus of vertex of projection during rabatment. 1931A. H. Jameson Contour Geom. i. 13 A..way to find the true angle between two lines or the true shape of any figure drawn on a plane, is to ‘rebate’ the plane in which the two lines or the figure lies, i.e. to rotate the plane into a horizontal position about one of the contour lines as axis. Draw a vertical section across the plane at right angles to the contours and draw circular arcs.., giving the rebated contours. Ibid. (heading) Rebatement. 1949N. L. Reece Newnes Building Geom. 206 A rebattement is the name given to the construction when a figure lying in an inclined plane is turned or ‘rebatted’ so as to lie in the horizontal plane. 1950G. A. Hanby Geometry viii. 92 Find the true shape of the surface abcdef by rabatment. Ibid. 93 The true shape of the section is rabatted to the left to keep it clear of the plan, so with T as centre, rabat b′c′ to B′C′. ▪ IV. rabat obs. form of rabbet n. |