rehelmv.
/ˌriːˈhɛlm/, U.S. /riˈhɛlm/ rare.
transitive. To cover (a person) with a helmet again.In quot. 1904 apparently translating the same work as quot. 1525.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > cover or furnish with helmet [verb (transitive)]
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a1509 (?1468) Acct. Marriage Margaret of York in Archaeologia (1846) 31 338 Wt out that it lyked him to be rehelmed, and so wt opin face to charge them to cese, it was lyke to grow to a gret inconvenyaunce..and then the Duke unhelmed hyme..and chargid pece in paine of deth.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxviii. 189 b/2 But with the crossynge of their speares the erle was vnhelmed. Than he retourned to his men, and incontynent he was rehelmed, and toke his speare.
1839 Mirror of Lit. Aug. 183/1 As a termination, the total number of knights re-helmed themselves.
a1846 T. R. Dew Digest Laws Anc. & Mod. Nations (1853) ii. ii. 347 His squires rehelmed him and they returned to the encounter.
1904 Proc. Numismatic & Antiquarian Soc. of Philadelphia 1902–3 161 But the horses crossed, and in doing so the Earl was unhelmed. He, however, returned to his squires, and was rehelmed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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