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re-ˈman, v.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To equip (a fleet, etc.) with fresh men; to man (a gun, etc.) anew.
1666Lond. Gaz. No. 77/3 To Re-man our Fleet,..resolution is taken of reducing 20, or 25 Companies of Foot. 1804Larwood No Gun Boats 11 One will refit, revictual, and re-man his forests of Flotillas. 1823Southey Penins. War I. 408 For a moment the citizens hesitated to re-man the guns. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxi. (1862) V. 329 These last five [triremes] had been re-manned with Chian crews.
2. To make manly or courageous again; to make again into a man.
1820Byron Mar. Fal. iii. ii. 500 Re-man your breast; I feel no such remorse. 1827Hare Guesses Ser. i. (1873) 181 First unmanning and then re-manning ourselves, each to serve a turn. 1869Browning Ring & Bk. xi. 2393 Un⁓manned, remanned:..With something changeless at the heart of me To know me by. |