rebate

Meanings

1. A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
2. The return of part of an amount already paid.
3. 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.

1. To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
2. To diminish or lessen something
3. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
4. To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
5. To abate; to withdraw.
6. Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².

Etymology

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.