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rebate


  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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