recouplev.
/(ˌ)riːˈkʌpl/, U.S. /riˈkəp(ə)l/ transitive. To couple, pair, or link again; to rejoin to or reunite with something.
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1607 S. Hieron Spirituall Tillage in Wks. (1620) I. 396 In the last day their bodies be raised out of the dust and recoupled to their soules.
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 102 They [sc. hogs] are awkward to serve in couples: uncoupled them... Re-coupled them: they are in perpetual mischief.
1859 Blackwood's Mag. May 555/2 One or two others..were now engaged in recoupling the baffled hounds.
1868 Times 9 Jan. 12/1 The driver reversed his engine, the train was reached, and, after being recoupled, the journey was continued.
1938 Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, N.Y.) 22 Apr. 4/1 (advt.) A spring-trip hitch with a lift-up handle which enables the operator to recouple the plow easily without leaving the tractor seat.
1971 Philos. Sci. 38 593 My general purpose has been to re-couple the concept of causal analysis to time sequences.
2005 L. Jenkins While Spring & Summer Sang 137 Virtually every one of these recordings..has achieved reissue on compact disc where..they have been regularly coupled and recoupled by the various record companies involved.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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