cricket vs rebate

cricket

noun
  • A wooden footstool. 

  • A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection. 

  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 

  • A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). 

  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. 

  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

rebate

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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 rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet. 

verb
  • 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 

  • To abate; to withdraw. 

  • Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate². 

  • To diminish or lessen something 

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