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Definition of Rethreading
1. rethread [v] - See also: rethread
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rethreading
Literary usage of Rethreading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manufacture of Artillery Ammunition by John Herbert Van Deventer, E. A. Suverkrop, Robert Mawson, Fred Herbert Colvin (1917)
"Then comes the rethreading, which, instead of being done by hand, as in most cases,
... This method is certainly easier than rethreading by hand, ..."
2. Natural Gas IndustryNatural gas (1922)
"Boring bar and rethreading tool such as we use for boring Laidlaw-Dunn Gordon
... rethreading bar is fitted the same except threads are 8 per inch and ..."
3. Automobile Repairshop Short-cuts: Over 1500 Time and Labor-saving Kinks by Motor World (1918)
"256) A die holder for bit brace use comes jn handy in rethreading spring clips,
and in fact for all rethreading work. This type of die holder is especially ..."
4. Montaigne by Tetel, Marcel (1903)
"Advantages are: Large quantity of suture material without rethreading; complete
asepsis, since there is no handling of the material after it ..."
5. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1893)
"... by the surgeon and assistants in threading and rethreading one or two needles
while the same were being used over and over again in closing an abdominal ..."
6. Behind the Motion-picture Screen by Austin Celestin Lescarboura (1919)
"rethreading the end of the film from the top magazine, through the various
sprockets and idlers to an empty reel in the take-up magazine, the operator is ..."
7. The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti (1891)
"He passed me without speech ; but when, At least an hour gone by, rethreading
the same covert, he Saw I was still beneath the tree, He spoke and sat him ..."
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