refreezev.

1784 E. Darwin Let. 13 Mar. (2007) 230 If a part was refrozen..I see no reason why it should not afford a correct measure of Heat.

?1794 ‘A. Pasquin’ Crying Epist. from Britannia to Col. Mack Advt. p. vii He can..thaw coagulation, and refreeze the billows.

1859 Philos. Trans. 1858 (Royal Soc.) 148 299 The mountain snow is often melted, mixed with water and refrozen.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 77 The surface of the snow had been partially melted by the sun and then refrozen.

1922 W. J. Locke Tale of Triona iii. 41 A portentous dinner-party whose conglomerate brain paralysed the salmon and refroze the imported lamb.

1974 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 186 158 The tissue core was always partly unfrozen after being pushed out of the borer..and hence it was necessary to refreeze the tissue on to a chuck.

1991 Atlantic Mar. 119/1 Refreezing thawed food is risky, in terms both of quality and of safety.

1818 Trewman's Exeter Flying Post 15 Oct. The ice had thrice broken up, and had as often refroze.

1875 J. Croll Climate & Time App. vi. 554 The water..refreezes the moment it is relieved from pressure.

1923 Ecology 4 387 Every time the soil refreezes after a thaw the plant is again subjected to these stresses.

1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation iv. 100 This film would constantly attract warm air and atmospheric vapour, which would seep into the interstices and refreeze during the night or during the winter.

1994 G. Paulsen Winterdance ix. 150 I was working the snow out of my clothing before it could melt and refreeze.

1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons 13 Sometimes, too, rain freezing as it falls, or a sudden thaw, and as sudden a re-freezing, covers the whole ground with a sheet of the most glassy ice.

1977 J. L. Hess & K. Hess Taste of Amer. iv. 50 Dr. Maclinn goes on to endorse the refreezing of fully thawed food, provided it doesn't actually stink.

2005 J. Fredston Snowstruck viii. 223 If cooling temperatures are allowed to strengthen a snowpack through refreezing, the window of opportunity may be lost.