rebated

English

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

Etymology

From rebate + -ed.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• unrebated

Verb

rebated

1. simple past and past participle of rebate

Anagrams

• berated, betread, debater, tabered