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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rabbit.

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Examples

  • The bars of these sashes are "rabbited" on both sides and double glazed, thus enclosing a stratum of air affording a good non-conductor of heat from within, or cold from without the pit.

    Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings 1867

  • (Evidently addicted to CSI, she rabbited on at length about GSR -- but her superficiality is exposed here.)

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Predictably, Stephen Peach, the CEO of ARIA, rabbited on about some number of billion downloads in Australia alone, and how that equaled $x million lost.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • I heard my papapa grumbling and trampling and then ittying off to the dyeworks where he rabbited, and then my mum called in in a very respectful goloss as she did now I was growing up big and strong:

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Predictably, Stephen Peach, the CEO of ARIA, rabbited on about some number of billion downloads in Australia alone, and how that equaled $x million lost.

    MiTunes: might as well tune out! 2008

  • I love his passion but it sometimes overtakes his ability to remain comprehensible and coherent, and if someone like me, who enjoys him, was thinking "Ok Dan, time to shut up now," as he rabbited on and on and on at the start of the Avatar section ...

    /Filmcast Ep. 81 - Avatar (GUEST: Dan Trachtenberg from the Totally Rad Show) | /Film 2009

  • She slammed on the brakes, and the vehicle rabbited to a halt.

    Unforgivable Laura Griffin 2008

  • Clinton and Blair rabbited on about triangulation, thus creating the Third Way idea of political manouvering.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • While Brendan rabbited on, Joy served us plates of steaming hot—and I have to admit—delicious beef stroganoff.

    The Right Fit Sinead Moriarty 2006

  • Brendan rabbited on with his depressing symptoms and fact findings.

    The Right Fit Sinead Moriarty 2006

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