rebated
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Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rebated (comparative more rebated, superlative most rebated)
- Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.). [from 16th c.]
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 288:
- Even with blunted lances and filed-down or ‘rebated’ blades, grave injury and death were all too frequent, and tended to ‘disturb the cheerfulness of such events’, as a contemporary Spanish herald understatedly put it.
- (military, of the rim of a firearm cartridge) Having a smaller diameter than the main body of the cartridge, from which it is separated by an extractor groove narrower than both.
Verb[edit]
rebated
- simple past and past participle of rebate