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To repeat signals

Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repeated; p. pr. & vb. n. Repeating.] [F. r['e]p['e]ter, L. repetere; pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See Petition.]

  1. To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. ``I will repeat our former communication.''
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

    Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish.
    --Milton.

  2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.]
    --Waller.

  3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).

    To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said.

    To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.

    Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.

Usage examples of "to repeat signals".

Within an hour the line had formed, fifteen handsome Indiamen under easy sail a cable's length apart and a fast-sailing brig to repeat signals.

These reflections were running through his mind as he leant on the stern-gallery rail a few days later, holding a handkerchief to his streaming nose, looking sometimes at the Worcester's grey and turbid wake, sometimes at the Pompee's bows, a cable's length astern, and sometimes at the Dryad, Babbington's slab-sided tub, stationed well out to the leeward to repeat signals up and down the line.