1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 July 12/2 (advt.) ‘Eagle Automatic Pencil’... Use only the Copying Ink Refills bearing the Eagle Pencil Company's stamp.

1886 Athenæum 25 Dec. 847/1 (advt.) The Student's Writing Tablets..Refills for size No. 1.

1946 Business Week 4 May 70/3 Eversharp's CA [ball-point pen]..is guaranteed to write from three months to three years without refilling (refills retail at 50c).

1970 Brit. Printer Aug. 69/1 Some fairly elaborate machines are needed to cast refills for the [type] cases.

1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 315 After switching to a plain paper fax by Brother, Lys was appalled to see the size and waste of the carbon/plastic refill needed every few hundred pages.

1929 ‘E. Queen’ Roman Hat Myst. iii. 53 I asked her if it was time to go in for my orangeade refills.

1960 C. MacInnes Mr. Love & Justice 79 The star ponce beckoned for refills... The girl..brought the glasses.

1968 ‘R. Raine’ Night of Hawk xxxiii. 156 Drink up and I'll give you a refill.

1977 Rolling Stone 30 June 25/1 A room-service waiter trying to set down refills on a coffee table hopelessly cluttered with empty glasses and Heineken bottles.

1986 D. Leavitt Lost Lang. Cranes (1987) 190 She poured refills of hot coffee for them.

1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) xv. 334 Let me do the coffee refills.

1903 Penny Illustr. Paper 15 Aug. 103/1 (advt.) The ‘Searchlight’. Pain's New Electric Pocket Lamp... Refill battery, 1/-.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 345/1 Nickel Pencil..4 in. long, with refill leads.

1918 W. Owen Let. 9 Sept. (1967) 574 I'd like a parcel with re-fill battery, cigarettes, & chocolate.

1921 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 158 Perhaps in time each party will provide not only its own refill ministers and kitchenmaids but even its own king.

1961 Lebende Sprachen 6 103/2 Refill cartridge, die Nachfüllmine..für Kugelschreiber.

1993 Ann. Rev. 1992 (Unilever) 23 Refill packs are made from light, degradable paper.

1615 E. Sandys Sacred Hymns 38 Comfort sweet, and sacred ioy refill Them all, whose mynds, conformd to heavenli will, Thy mercies seek, saluation thyn dezire.

1687 in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 96 To have all the places of the College refilled..with..Priests.

a1745 W. Broome tr. Anacreon Odes (1835) l See! how the mimic clusters roll, As ready to refil the bowl.

1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lxxxii. 46 Dungeons and thrones, which the same hour re-fill'd.

1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. ix. 192 The watchman was good-natured enough to assist him in re-filling the barrow.

1863 Sat. Rev. 22 Aug. 245 To re-fill the places where the foremost assailants of the breach had been struck down.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iii. 46 The amoeba can wait for weeks till the rain refills the pool.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. Suppl. 3/2 After the dead bird has been removed from the bag, this is returned with other empties to the food merchant to be refilled.

1990 E. J. Howard Light Years 9 Villy, who had got up to pour herself more coffee, noticed Edward's cup and refilled it.

2006 W. Kellenter in J. Phillips Trade Marks at Limit ii. x. 120 Can SodaStream invoke trade mark law to prevent third parties from refilling and redistributing its cylinders?

1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §68 To turn two Cocks, that one Vessel of water being consumed, another begins to..re-fill.

1744 C. Warrick in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 15 Hence, to the latter End of October, she [sc. a dropsical patient] re-filled incredibly.

1854 Musical Times May 39/2 I have only to pull out the draw stop and the wheel again commences to refill.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 451 If they [sc. the cysts] refill, they should be laid open.

1943 G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. iii. 60 Wait till the cistern refills, then pull the plug again and knock me out ‘good and hard’.

1986 D. Johnson Stars at Noon (1987) I. 4 The toilet..flushed but didn't refill.

2008 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Feb. l6 My lungs refilled with air.

1881 Proc. Royal Soc. 33 86 The large difference formerly observed in the heights of the mercurial column..has not been found to exist in the refilled tubes.

1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior i. 38 Ramsay took the refilled glass.

2006 W. Kellenter in J. Phillips Trade Marks at Limit ii. x. 120 Every refilled or recycled product sold may take the place of a new product.