(adj) serving or tending to repel, Syn.repellent, repellant, Example: he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful; I find his obsequiousness repellent
n. [ See Rabbet. ] 1. (Arch.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. Elmes. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. Elmes. [ 1913 Webster ]
4. [ Perhaps a different word. ] A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [ R. ] Elmes. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ F. rebattre to beat again; pref. re- re- + battre to beat, L. batuere to beat, strike. See Abate. ] 1. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. [ 1913 Webster ]
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. To return a portion of a sum paid, as a method of discounting of prices. [ PJC ]
Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot. [ 1913 Webster ]
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