rebated

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English

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The .50 GI cartridge (left) has a rebated (adjective sense 2) rim.

Etymology

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From rebate +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːbeɪtɪd/, /ɹɪˈbeɪtɪd/

Adjective

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rebated (comparative more rebated, superlative most rebated)

  1. 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.
  2. (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

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rebated

  1. simple past and past participle of rebate

Anagrams

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