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Remeasure

Remeasure \Re*meas"ure\ (r?-m?zh"?r; 135), v. t. To measure again; to retrace.

They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right.
--Fairfax.

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remeasure

vb. measure again

Usage examples of "remeasure".

I began poring over architectural drawings of this tower and remeasuring everything, and I found where the chapel used to be.

But past awhile, when she fit season sawTo leaue that desert mansion, she castIn secret wize her selfe thence to withdraw,For feare of mischiefe, which she did forecastMight by the witch or by her sonne compast:Her wearie Palfrey closely, as she might,Now well recouered after long repast,In his proud furnitures she freshly dight,His late miswandred wayes now to remeasure right.

She reached to the left, found the heavy draperies, and carefully remeasured what she was sure was the proper distance from the bed.

Rudolf Gantenbrink, who remeasured the angles of the shafts recently, gave a higher ‘adjusted’ value of 39.

Eyes lifted, he continuously remeasured their sluggish progress to the top, and when he could do that no longer he lowered his gaze merely to the next turn, and when that too became unbearable, he looked only to the next step, to the feet in front of his, and when that too became an ordeal, his breath fluttering in his chest, his fingertips dripping so much sweat he could no longer grip the stone, they turned a corner, took a few final steps, and the cliff disappeared as a wide platform spread before them, a starless slab beneath the slab of sky.