Balderdash for the medieval Gay #111

(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)

111.) Rabate
-verb

a.) To recover to the fist, as a hawk.*

[Origin: From the French rabattre meaning “to beat down.”]

*This is a term used in falconry. Humans typically recover from a fist, not to one, but one never knows…