Word Direct Answers

What does "rebate" mean?

Rebate: To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. Blount. Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To abate; to withdraw. [Obs.] Foxe.
  2. 3.Diminution.
  3. 4.(Com.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties. Bouvier.
  4. 5.(Arch.) A restangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
  5. 6.A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. Elmes.
  6. 7.An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. Elmes.
  7. 8.Etym: [Perhaps a different word.] A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [R.] Elmes.
  8. 9.To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.

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