the Fourth Week of Advent
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Rebate
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.
(2):
(v. i.) To abate; to withdraw.
(3):
(n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
(4):
(n.) A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
(5):
(v. t.) To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.
(6):
(n.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.
(7):
(v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
(8):
(n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
(9):
(n.) Diminution.
(10):
(n.) A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
These files are public domain.
Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Used by Permission.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rebate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rebate.html. 1828.
