rebate

To make a rebate or rabbet in, as a piece of joinery or other work; rabbet.

To beat back; drive back by beating; fend or ward off; repulse.

To beat down; beat to bluntness; make obtuse or dull, literally or figuratively; blunt; bate.

To set or throw off; allow as a discount or abatement; make a drawback of. See the noun.

To draw back or away; withdraw; recede.

A longitudinal space or groove cut back or sunk in a piece of joinery, timber, or the like, to receive the edge of some other part.

A kind of hard freestone used in pavements.

A piece of wood fastened to a handle, used for beating mortar.

Diminution; retrenchment; specifically, an allowance by way of discount or drawback; a deduction from a gross amount.

To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.