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reˈwork, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
1. a. To work again.
1842Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. V. 392/2 The whole of the walls, arches, and aisle vaults have been reworked. 1855J. R. Leifchild Cornwall Mines 254 Thus a great and profitable tin mine seemed to wear out by degrees. It may, however, be successfully re-worked. 1891Law Times Rep. LXV. 562/2 Butterine.., if intended for exportation to London,..was reworked at the Drummoyne factory.
b. spec. in Geol. Of a natural agent: to alter, esp. to remove and redeposit (rock or the like).
1870C. F. Hartt Thayer Exped.: Sci. Results Journey Brazil xix. 573 Where the surface of the rock..had been covered by a thick layer of loose material, the glacier re⁓worked this loose material, and when it disappeared left it as a paste. 1939P. D. Trask Recent Marine Sediments iii. 202 The tidal mud is reworked as rapidly as it is deposited. 1962Read & Watson Introd. Geol. I. vii. 381 Loose pyroclastic accumulations are always liable to be reworked by wind, streams and other surface-agents and may then be redeposited along with appropriate kinds of sedimentary rocks. 1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 122 Mud-feeding animals play a significant part in re-working the sediment even on the floor of the abyssal parts of the ocean. 1977Sci. Amer. Mar. 94/3 One extreme hypothesis is that most if not all of it [sc. continental crust] was made early in the course of the earth's chemical differentiation and that ever since then it has been reworked, that is, heated, melted, recrystallized and deformed.
2. To change the variety of (a plant) by grafting.
1942Jrnl. Pomol. XIX. 194 When reworking apple trees liable to attack by silver leaf after grafting, it is important to retain as much of the head of the tree as possible. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. June 538/2 Auckland growers decided to rework thousands of Delicious trees to other varieties.
Hence reˈworked, ppl. a.; reˈworker, one who works (something) again, spec. a reviser or redactor; reˈworking vbl. n.
1873Whitney Oriental & Ling. Stud. 267 There has been no thorough reworking of those parts of the lecture. 1886T. S. Hunt Mineral Physiol. & Physiogr. vii. 275 The layer of ground and ‘reworked’ decayed material resting on the gneiss, found by Hartt in Brazil. 1891Law Times Rep. LXV. 562/2 Of these ninety-five kegs three were lost in the reworking. 1939P. D. Trask Recent Marine Sediments iii. 197 This type of bedding indicates frequent reworking of the sediments under the influence of currents of varying strength and direction. Ibid. 201 In these areas the sediments are reworked deposits, not new ones. 1955J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 157 Reworking of butter invariably increases the count and also increases the size of the water globules. 1970J. R. L. Allen Physical Processes of Sedimentation iv. 140 The beds preserved have properties denoting extensive sediment re⁓working. 1972G. Jones Kings, Beasts, & Heroes ii. i. 66 The story-tellers of the Mabinogion are to a high degree reworkers of old material, borrowers from an often remote antiquity. 1977Early Music Oct. 581/1, I think it is a pity that the models of the two known reworkings are not identified more clearly. 1979Dædalus Summer 94 The reader is not simply beckoned to catch an unwonted glimpse of the diverse states of a subtly reworked self-portrait. |