To levy a cess.
Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
To abate; to withdraw.
To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
To diminish or lessen something
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
The return of part of an amount already paid.
The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.