These are the meanings of the letters EBTARE when you unscramble them.
- Beater (n.)
A person who beats up game for the hunters.
- Beater (n.)
One who, or that which, beats.
- Berate (v. t.)
To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
- Rebate (n.)
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
- Rebate (n.)
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
- Rebate (n.)
A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
- Rebate (n.)
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
- Rebate (n.)
Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.
- Rebate (n.)
Diminution.
- Rebate (v. i.)
To abate; to withdraw.
- Rebate (v. t.)
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
- Rebate (v. t.)
To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.
- Rebate (v. t.)
To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.