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noun
Rebate  n.  
1.
(Arch.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
2.
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
3.
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
4.
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. (R.)






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"Rebate" Quotes from Famous Books



... gave them six months' credit; and the lynxes of Angouleme practically took a twelvemonth, though tall Cointet would say month by month to the lynxes' jackal, "Do you want any money, Doublon?" Nor was this all. Doublon gave the influential house a rebate upon every transaction; it was the merest trifle, one franc fifty centimes ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac

... Spain was under the command of Cluvius Rufus, a man of great eloquence, and more skilled in the arts of peace than of war.[19] The Gallic provinces had not forgotten Vindex: moreover, they were bound to Galba by his recent grant of Roman citizenship and his rebate of their tribute for the future. The tribes, however, which lay nearest to the armies stationed in Germany had not received these honours: some even had lost part of their territory and were equally aggrieved at the magnitude of their own injuries ...
— Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II • Caius Cornelius Tacitus

... dost thou meane to Cheate me of my Heart, To take all Mine, and giue me none againe? Or haue thine Eyes such Magike, or that Art, That what They get, They euer doe retaine? Play not the Tyrant, but take some Remorse, Rebate thy Spleene, if but for Pitties sake; Or Cruell, if thou can'st not; let vs scorse, And for one Piece of Thine, my whole heart take. But what of Pitty doe I speake to Thee, Whose Brest is proofe against ...
— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton

... bronze, without rebate, which the sukallu imposed as a fine. Paid to the sakintu. Dated the tenth of Adar, B.C. 693. ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns

... homes of the land, and if the number and sequence of children can be regulated by the parents' circumstances, these homes will increase in number, will start when parents are younger and confer greater benefits alike on the family and the State. If need be, the State could grant a progressive rebate of taxation, and educational facilities for each of three children born after the second and where the father is twenty-five ...
— Love—Marriage—Birth Control - Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at - Birmingham, October, 1921 • Bertrand Dawson

... 1705 an act "for the Better Preventing of a Spurious and Mixt Issue," laid a restrictive duty of L4 on all slaves imported.[19] One provision of this act plainly illustrates the attitude of Massachusetts: like the acts of many of the New England colonies, it allowed a rebate of the whole duty on re-exportation. The harbors of New England were thus offered as a free exchange-mart for slavers. All the duty acts of the Southern and Middle colonies allowed a rebate of one-half or three-fourths of the duty on the re-exportation ...
— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois



Words linked to "Rebate" :   groove, cut, rabbet, bring together, channel, rusticate, discount, join, rent-rebate, refund



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