rebate

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
• To diminish or lessen something
• To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
• To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
• To abate; to withdraw.

Origin

• From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.