rebated
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːbeɪtɪd/, /ɹɪˈbeɪtɪd/
Adjective
rebated (comparative more rebated, superlative most rebated)
- Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.). [from 16th c.]
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 288:
- 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 2012, p. 288:
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