refit
The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
Noun
- The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
- The ship required a refit before setting out again.
- At the start, the team removed the sides and the ceiling panels, alongside the seats. They then stripped out the cabling that runs through the carriage. Once that was done, the carriage would be ready for the refit. -...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English fit English refit From re- + fit.
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Verb
- To fit again; to put back into its place.
- 1677, Philip Meadows, A Narrative of the Principal Actions Occurring in the Wars Betwixt Sueden and Denmark, London: A.C. and H. Brome, pp. 122-123, The truth is they made no great scruple, at least for that one time,...
- […] I have seen a Man ride with both his feet upon the Saddle, take off his Saddle, and at his return take it up again, refit, and remount it, riding all the while full speed; - 1685, chapter 48, in Charles Cotton,...
- Michelangelo took a group outside and in full view of the papal troops refitted the fallen, shattered stone into the walls. - 1961, Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 9, p. 554:
- To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.
- to refit a garment; to refit ships of war
- But these [aqueducts] by the sloth and carelesness of the Greeks and Turks falling to decay and rendred useless, were restored and refitted by the Emperor Suleiman, who was so intent upon this great work, that he said...
- […] all the three theatres have been repeatedly altered, and refitted, and enlarged, to make them capacious of the crowds, that nightly flock to them; - 1797, Edmund Burke, A third letter to a Member of the present...
- To fit out or supply again (with something).
- For what can be more comfortable then to be asserted from the power of the grave, and rescued from death and mortality, to have our Soul refitted with Organs, and all the bodily powers awakened again so as to lose...
- 1697, John Dryden (translator), Virgil’s Aeneis, Book 1, lines 776-777, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 224, Permit our Ships a Shelter on your Shoars, Refitted from your Woods with Planks and Oars;
- To prepare a vessel for use again (e.g. by replenishing depleted supplies or doing maintenance or repair work); (of a vessel) to be prepared for use again.
- 1669, uncredited translator, Memoires of Henry, D. of Guise, London: Henry Herringman, Book 5, p. 499, […] I discovered two Gallies making towards Nicita, whom I saluted with two Cannons, which I levelled and fired my...
- As soon as we were out of danger, we came to anchor and refitted; - 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, volume 2, London: for the author, page 117:
- A little to leeward of this was a small cluster of islands, where we were going to refit, abounding with delicious fruits […] - 1847, Herman Melville, chapter 9, in Omoo: