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reweave, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
To weave again. In quots. fig. Hence reˈweaving vbl. n.
c1700Congreve Ovid's Met. x, Let me again Eurydice receive, Let Fate her quick-spun thread of life re-weave. 1860Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. i. §19. 1 ‘So!’ he thought, ‘they meet thus: and reweave the old charm!’ 1882C. F. Woolson Anne 349 [It] will rend this filmy fabric of imagination immediately, never to be rewoven again. 1929Oxford Poetry 6 These worn and tangled threads of day reweave Like memory's or music's threads. 1963Economist 2 Feb. 392/2 It is this reweaving of America with Europe that General de Gaulle is now challenging. 1964McCall's Sewing xv. 265 (heading) Reweaving/Invisible Patching. Ibid., You can only use threads ravelled from the fabric for reweaving.
refl.1877Ruskin Laws of Fesole vi. (1907) 84 It is a web which re-weaves itself when you tear it. |