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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Re·bate v. t.
 1. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
    But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.   --Shak.
 2. To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.
 Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.