Rebate

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 86

rē-bāt′, v.t. ( Shak. ) to beat to obtusene , to blunt: to beat back: to allow as discount.— n. Rēbāte′ment , deduction: diminution: narrowing: ( her. ) a shortening, as of one arm of a cro . [Fr. rebattre , to beat back—L. re- , back, battuĕre , to beat.]