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Rebated

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.).

    "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. 2
    Having a smaller diameter than the main body of the cartridge, from which it is separated by an extractor groove narrower than both.
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of rebate form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From rebate + -ed.

Etymology 2

From rebate + -ed.

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