Meaning

A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement..

Definitions by Sense

1. A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
2. The return of part of an amount already paid.
3. (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
4. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
5. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
6. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
7. A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
8. (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment

Example Sentences

For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap.

But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.

Then near the corslet, at the monarch’s heart, With all his strength, the youth directs his dart: But the broad belt, with plates of silver bound, The point rebated, and repell’d the wound.

he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery

The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]

Word Forms

• rebates
• rabate
• rebating
• rebated

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