rebated
adjUK /ˈɹiːbeɪtɪd/
Etymology From rebate + -ed.
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.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 288:
2
Government, Military, Politics, War Having a smaller diameter than the main body of the cartridge, from which it is separated by an extractor groove narrower than both.
Of the rim of a firearm cartridge
- Derived terms
- unrebated