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▪ I. refit, n.|ˈriːfɪt, riːˈfɪt|
[re- 5 a.]
An act or instance of refitting (esp. of a ship); a fresh fitting-out.
1799Nelson 12 Sept. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) IV. 11 The Seahorse, whose state requires docking and a thorough re-fit. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 387 Your vessel is strained to pieces,..no orders for a refit. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. II. xvi. 123 A large number of whaling vessels resorted to Lahaine for their annual refit. 1945Jane's Fighting Ships 1944–45 432 A contract was signed..for the repair and refit of this battle-cruiser. 1955Times 7 May 8/1 An explosion occurred last night in the diesel room of H.M.S. Daring under refit in Devonport dockyard. 1975Drive New Year 28/2 Is it more economical to write off a damaged car and pay the client out or make him wait for a re-fit? 1976Gramophone Sept. 453/3 The Canterbury instrument is now in need of a refit.
▪ II. refit, v.|riːˈfɪt|
[re- 5 a.]
1. Naut.
a. trans. To fit out (a ship, fleet, etc.) again; to restore to a serviceable condition by renewals and repairs. Also refl., and const. with.
1666Pepys Diary 4 July, Ships, when they are a little shattered, must..refit themselves the best they can. 1697Dryden æneid i. 777 Permit our Ships a Shelter on your Shoars, Refitted from your Woods with Planks and Oars. 1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 422 Ulysses on the coast of Crete Staid but a season to refit his fleet. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 64 They met with a violent storm, and put into Port Louis to refit their ships. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxvi. (1856) 324 To prepare for our closing struggle with the ice-fields..it was determined to refit the Rescue.
b. intr. To get refitted; to have renewals or repairs executed.
1669H. Salesbury in St. Papers, Dom. 175 The Portland has come in to refit, having lost her masts. 1703–4Lond. Gaz. No. 3880/1 The Captains of Our Ships of War, which are come into Port to Clean and Refit. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 110 We anchored in Gibraltar Bay, and the ship was stripped to refit. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 5 The enemy drifted to leeward to refit.
2. a. trans. To fit, arrange, or set in order, again; to fit out afresh in some respect. Also with up.
1676Marvell Mr. Smirke Wks. 1875 III. 62 When it shall come out new vamped and refitted, it will be a question.., whether it be the same sermon. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 223 Those harmless Doctrines have been..refitted up again by a still later set of Modern Montanists. 1782F. Burney Cecilia vii. ix, That all expedition might be used in refitting the other chaise for their reception. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. vi, Can all sage, saint, or sophist ever writ People this lonely tower, this tenement refit?
b. intr. To renew supplies or equipment.
1802H. Martin Helen of Glenross III. 261, I want to go and refit at Cheltenham; and thence I shall vagabondize somewhere or other. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 405 The exhausted condition of the army..compelled Aurangzib..to halt and refit at Cabul.
3. trans. To fit (a person) again for something.
1792F. Burney Diary Jan. (1842) V. vii. 278 An old attendance I was so little refitted for renewing. |