repull

To pull again.

Verb

  1. To pull again.
    • Castings that break outside of the gage marks shall not be repulled. - 1956, Taylor, Duane F.; Sweeney, W. T., A proposed specification for dental chromium-cobalt casting alloys, National Bureau of Standards, page 10
    • and she stops, repulls the starter, and leans in hard again to move the engine - 1994, Frost, Carol, Pure, TriQuarterly Books, page 43:
    • When intelligence was brought to Alyvirdy Khan, that the enemy were in their turn repulled, he rallied his broken forces, and a fecond conflict enfued. - 1788, Salim Allah, Munshi, A narrative of the transactions in...

Origin

re- + pull

Forms

repulls repulling repulled