Setdown vs Rebate - What's the difference?
setdown | rebate |
The humbling of a person by act or words.
A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.
A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.
The return of part of an amount already paid.
(photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
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A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
To diminish or lessen something
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
* Shakespeare
To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
To abate; to withdraw.
As a noun setdown
is the humbling of a person by act or words.As a verb rebate is
.setdown
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (humbling retort) put-down (Webster 1913)rebate
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(en noun)Verb
(rebat)- But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
- (Foxe)