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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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