Literary usage of Reassorts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Naval Encyclopædia: Comprising a Dictionary of Nautical Words and Phrases (1880)
"... outside the building shakes the balance of the dust (‘Ut, reassorts the sizes,
and dumps the grains ..."
2. Award of the Fishery Commission: Documents and Proceedings of the Halifax by Maurice Delfosse, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, Alexander Tilloch Galt, United States Dept. of State (1878)
"He takes those mackerel iu his warehouse and reassorts them. Of the No. 2's he
makes one-half No. 1's, and out of the No. 1's he makes one-half extras, ..."
3. Philippine Tariff: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Sereno Elisha Payne, William Howard Taft, United States War Dept (1906)
"The tobacco being ready for packing, the dealer reassorts it as he sees fit,
always endeavoring to classify it higher than he bought it. because if he did ..."
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