rebated

comparative more rebated · superlative most rebated

1. Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.).First known use 16th c.

   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.

   2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 288

2. governmentHaving a smaller diameter than the main body of the cartridge, from which it is separated by an extractor groove narrower than both.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of rebate