rebate

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːbeɪt/ / /ɹəˈbeɪt/

Etymology: From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
The return of part of an amount already paid.
The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
“For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap.”
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

Etymology: From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
To diminish or lessen something
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
“But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.”
“Then near the corslet, at the monarch’s heart, With all his strength, the youth directs his dart: But the broad belt, with plates of silver bound, The point rebated, and repell’d the wound.”
To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
To abate; to withdraw.
“he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery”
Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
“The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]”