Rebated vs Rerated - What's the difference?
rebated | rerated |
Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.).
*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.
(rebate)