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1713 Tunbridge-misc. 9 Reviving Vigour to the Spring supply, Awake her Beauties, and repoint her Eye.

1842 F. Francillon Ess. on Punctuation 42 There must be no ambiguity; whenever a doubt arises the sentence must be recast, and not pointed or repointed.

1955 Times 7 Dec. 11 The moral of the differing ways of life of the diarists was punctually repointed.

2005 P. Jeffery Translating Trad. ii. 38 The Hebrew word for ‘bed’ in Genesis 47:31 was repointed to spell ‘staff’ in the sources of the Septuagint.

1821 Tickler 1 June 119 ‘My daughter!—come,’ continued he, repointing his pistol at his antagonist.

1920 Navy Ordnance Activities iv. 210 It was not necessary to repoint the gun after each shot.

1997 MacUser (Nexis) 1 Jan. 42 You can make all the movements you can make with a real camera..by selecting the appropriate tool and dragging within the camera window to repoint the camera.

2009 Polish Amer. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) May 18 As operations astronomer, he monitored the instruments aboard the Hubble, checked the quality of data, and repointed the telescope.

1827 London Mag. 1 Nov. 318 A small room at the end of the gallery, appropriated to the use of the reporters, where they can hang up their cloaks and hats, repoint their pencils.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 360 The latter [sc. needles with broken points] are generally repointed as blunts.

1918 Compressed Air Mag. Feb. 8664 A machine operated by one man can repoint 60 bits an hour, and the bits are perfectly uniform.

2006 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 5 Mar. 21 They repoint stone chisels.

1838 J. C. Loudon Suburban Gardener iii. 308 The common mode of remedying this evil is to repoint the wall.

1864 Daily Tel. 17 Mar. The shot-holes have all been neatly mended, the shattered bricks re-pointed.

1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 322 It is surely better to retop and repoint than to take away.

1940 Sci. Monthly Nov. 480/1 Such attention as it now received had been unknown to the little building for at least three quarters of a century. It was reroofed, repointed, repainted and replastered.

1976 P. Alexander Death of Thin-skinned Animal xx. 206 If you haven't done any maintenance there, boyo, how come I've got a worksheet for renewing thirty foot of ogee guttering and repointing the bloody gable end?

1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) x. 449/2 If you don't like the appearance of ordinary mortar joints, rake out some of the mortar and repoint with mortar made with silver sand.

2000 J. Harris Blackberry Wine (2001) lii. 266 His roof, too, had developed a leak, and Roux had offered to help him mend it and repoint the brickwork.