Definition of Respread

1. spread [v -SPREAD, -SPREADING, -SPREADS] - See also: spread

Lexicographical Neighbors of Respread

responsum
respool
respooled
respooling
respools
respot
respots
respotted
respotting
resprang
respray
resprayed
respraying
resprayings
resprays
respread (current term)
respreading
respreads
respring
respringing
resprings
resprout
resprouted
resprouting
resprouts
resprung
ressaldar
ressaldars
ressentiment
ressentiments

Literary usage of Respread

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1880)
"The stones were loosened with picks, broken smaller, and respread. At the receiving reservoir the wood-work of tjie government house wa.s partly painted, ..."

2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1897)
"... then it is only necessary to draw back the cord to respread the nets, the poles serving only to put the cord through the first time. ..."

3. The Complete Poems of John Donne by John Donne, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1872)
"... bird o'respread, and salt still evermore, 179 Till her inclos'd child kickt and peck'd itselfe a dore. Out crept a sparrow, ..."

4. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1907)
"It has evidently been respread since I had it, and if it ever had any distinctive label it has disappeared. In appearance and color it is much closer to ..."

5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... she clings mid loyes tin- more ; Soak in, and wonted flames to neat his heart, And to o'respread his bones and every part Virgil, by t'icars, 1032. ..."

6. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"It is repeatedly turned and respread over a larger area, with a thickness of layer decreasing to € inches. At this stage, the radicles have attained their ..."

7. A White Umbrella in Mexico by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1889)
"As the girls crawled across them, the first peon would again seize his zarape, run ahead, and respread it. " It is a penance, senor," said a bystander, ..."

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