Definition of Rabate

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Rabate
(v.)
To recover to the fist, as a hawk.
  

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rabate
\ra*bate"\ (r&adot;*bāt"), v. t. [f. rabattre to beat down; pref. re- + abattre. see abate, and cf. rebate, v.] (falconry) to recover to the fist, as a hawk. [obs.]