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Definition of Resighted
1. resight [v] - See also: resight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resighted
Literary usage of Resighted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"... as Mr Robertson explained to the House of Commons, the guns of the navy have
been resighted in accordance with modern practical and scientific notions, ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1884)
"... lost and resighted, like a ' will-o'-the-wisp' in the distance. The night was
well advanced ere I struggled into the town after fourteen hours' tramp, ..."
3. Archives of Maryland by Maryland Historical Society (1893)
"... which with some muskett barrels and large piecs, I fully intend down with as
soon as the service above resighted will permitt, you will please to lay ..."
4. Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout by Stewart Edward White (1922)
"A rifle shooting a long or conical bullet must be resighted with any radical
increase or reduction of the charge. It will be just as accurate with the new ..."
5. War Time Control of Industry: The Experience of England by Howard Levi Gray (1918)
"... were accepted as during the preceding ten months; many hundred thousand others
were resighted and repaired. Nearly twice as many guns for land service ..."
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