▪ I. rebating, vbl. n.1
(rɪˈbeɪtɪŋ)
[f. rebate v.1]
1. The action of the vb., in various senses.
| a 1483 Liber Niger Edw. IV in Househ. Ord. (1790) 74 All other crafte for the rackinge, coynynge, rebatinge, and other salvation of wynes. 1561 in Froude Hist. Eng. (1881) VI. 486 Punishing of massmongers for the rebating of their humours. 1598 R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo ii. 138 How the Lights, Reflexions and naturall rebating of the lights doe vary. 1632 Sherwood, A rebating, or rebatement, rabais. 1889 Times 6 June 5/1 Both houses of the Cape Parliament have passed the convention tariff, which confers similar powers of rebating on the Government. |
† 2. = rebatement 3. Obs.
| 1562 Leigh Armorie 122 There are nyne rebating[s] of armes,..for nyne sondry vngentilmanly dedes done. |
▪ II. rebating, vbl. n.2
[f. rebate v.2]
The making of a rebate or rabbet.
| 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 159 Grooving and Rebating consist in taking or abstracting a part which is every where of a rectangular section. 1861 Wynter Soc. Bees 144 As there is no window-framing, planing, mortising, or rebating required, the cost is very inconsiderable. |
| attrib. 1812–16 J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 111 Rebating-planes without a fence have the iron the whole breadth of the sole. 1842 Gwilt Archit. §2104 Of the sinking rebating planes there are two sorts. |
▪ III. † reˈbating, a. Obs.—1
[Prob. f. rebat-er, var. of next.]
Supporting the ruff.
| 1596 Gosson Quips Upst. Gentlew. 80 (Percy Soc.) 6 This starch, and these rebating props, as though ruffes were some rotten house. |