Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To beat down; rebate.
- In falconry, to bring down or recover (the hawk) to the fist.
- noun Abatement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Falconry), obsolete To recover to the fist, as a hawk.
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Please have someone reply accordingly within the next 48 hours as to the status of our rabate.
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That way every pound raised would result in a tax rabate on the tax paid by the contributor.
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