单词 | rehaul |
释义 | rehauln. Chiefly North American. 1. An instance of transporting goods for a second or further time. Also as a mass noun. ΚΠ 1887 Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Daily Free Press 16 June Goods can be shipped to a point west of Des Moines for three cents beyond this city, while Des Moines has to pay seventeen cents for that rehaul. 1916 Manitoba Free Press 4 July 4/7 Ship direct to the east..without undergoing the necessity of the rehaul from Fort William back to Graham. 1917 Public Utilities Rep. e. 856 Two additional terminal charges are included in the rehaul, whether it go on as paper or as pulp wood. 2001 Star-Herald (Scottsbluff/Gering, Nebraska) 17 Nov. 1/3 The sugar content for beets delivered to Scottsbluff averaged 15.73 percent... The plant is running well and rehaul is going good. 2. = overhaul n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > with a view to repairs, etc. going-over1672 working over1695 overhale1748 overhauling1769 overhaul1826 rehaul1895 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > act of amendment1389 amendingc1396 repair?c1450 recruit1691 rehaul1895 1895 Belfast News-let. 27 June 3/3 The Ailsa [sc. a yacht] is now undergoing a rehaul in Messrs. A. & J. Inglis's yard. 1906 Salt Lake Tribune 23 June 7/3 The three courts at the club have been undergoing a rehaul and are now in first-class condition. 1985 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 85 924/1 A coalition of 17 Ohio nursing groups goes for a top-to-bottom rehaul of the nurse practice act. 1995 Boston Globe (Nexis) 19 Oct. 61 Artisans and workers have spent the past seven weeks..giving the 1,600-seat Boylston Street theater its first major rehaul. 2006 L. M. Alcoff Visible Identities 199 The complete elimination of gender would require a radical rehaul of biological reproduction. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rehaulv. Chiefly North American. 1. transitive. To transport (goods) for a second or further time. ΚΠ 1853 M. C. Meigs Let. 14 May in Rep. Court of Claims House of Representatives 1856–7 34th U.S. Congr., 3rd Sess. (1857) vl. 10 They are..done with it [sc. a quantity of marble] as soon as it is put down where government says it shall be put, and they peremptorily refuse to re-haul it. 1874 C. C. Fulton Europe viewed through Amer. Spectacles 300/1 The cargo of a vessel arriving will often be taken to load another ready to depart, and not hauled and stored and rehauled, as in New York. 1892 Southeastern Reporter 14 622/1 The plaintiff still brings this action for alleged damage to the tobacco by its being hauled and rehauled, and loaded and unloaded. 1977 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 15 Apr. 34/6 They also disliked a proposal to rehaul mixed waste to a regional landfill. 1997 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 2 Oct. 1 a The company..then rehauls the beets to its factory in Sidney. 2. transitive. = overhaul v. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)] > look over with a view to amending revisea1626 overhaul1870 rehaul1896 1896 Chicago Tribune 28 Mar. 7/5 (headline) Crusader [sc. a yacht] to be rehauled. 1920 War Expenditures: Hearings before Subcomm. No. 3 of Comm. on Expend. War Dept. (U.S. House of Representatives, 66th Congr. 1st & 2nd Sess. Serial 4) I. 289 This place..was a supply depot or a place where parts were kept and planes rehauled. 1927 Jrnl. Philos. 24 691 It would have been imperative for the author to rehaul and perhaps abandon the use of time as a fourth dimension. 1976 S. H. Beh in B. Nichols Movies & Methods I. 181 To stamp out prostitution calls for rehauling the entire system and giving women the political and economical power for self-determination. 2007 J. B. Stanley Fit to Die 78 Your mama was all set to rehaul the whole room, but I kept frettin' about the cost. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1887v.1853 |
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