rebated

English

The .50 GI cartridge (left) has a rebated (adjective sense 2) rim.

Etymology

From rebate +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːbeɪtɪd/, /ɹɪˈbeɪtɪd/

Adjective

rebated (comparative more rebated, superlative most rebated)

1. Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.). [from 16th c.]
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 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.

2. (military, of the rim of a firearm cartridge) Having a smaller diameter than the main body of the cartridge, from which it is separated by an extractor groove narrower than both.

Verb

rebated

1. simple past and past participle of rebate

Anagrams

• berated, betread, debater, tabered