6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rebate \Re*bate"\, v. i.
To abate; to withdraw. [Obs.] --Foxe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rebate \Re*bate"\, n.
1. Diminution.
2. (Com.) Deduction; abatement; as a rebate of interest for
immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.
--Bouvier.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rebate \Re*bate"\, n. [See {Rabbet}.]
1. (Arch.) A restangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut
in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See {Rabbet}.
2. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to
beat out mortar. --Elmes.
3. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used
for dressing and polishing wood. --Elmes.
4. [Perhaps a different word.] A kind of hard freestone used
in making pavements. [R.] --Elmes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rebate \Re*bate"\, v. t.
To cut a rebate in See {Rabbet}, v.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rebate \Re*bate"\, v. t. [F. rebattre to beat again pref re-
re- + battre to beat L. batuere to beat strike. See
{Abate}.]
1. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt;
to turn back the point of as a lance used for exercise.
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge. --Shak.
2. To deduct from to make a discount from as interest due,
or customs duties. --Blount.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
rebate
n 1: a refund of some fraction of the amount paid [syn: {discount}]
2: a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together [syn:
{rabbet}]
v 1: give a rebate
2: as of timber or stone [syn: {cut a rebate in}]
3: join with a rebate, as of pieces of timber or stone
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