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restring

1809, from re- + string (v.). Related: Restrung; restringing.

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restring

vb. To string again.

Usage examples of "restring".

I wanted a new racquet, it was because the old one wanted restringing.

It was more important now that he finish restringing the harp, so he could play their warriors into good heart for the morrow.

They spend hours making up their faces, restringing their pearl necklaces, choosing new material for dresses, and thinking how to outshine Mrs.

Val Con was sitting as far away from the corner fireplace as he could, restringing the mandolette and listening to Hakan chatter.

They lay in the order in which they had fallen after the original cords had rotted, and by restringing them on the spot I had been able to preserve the original design.

The last time she took them out of the safe, they looked like they needed restringing, anyway.

His parents had even kept his little treasures: a wooden frog he had whittled and painted, under the instruction of the head gardener, a couple of battered shuttlecock racquets that needed restringing, and a bag of marbles, swirled with amber, scarlet, and blue.

Blacks, should they come in search of their former captive, but these consisted only of restringing the bows and furbishing up the feathers on our arrows.

As the armorer was restringing his bow, one of the natives shot an arrow at him, and he fell, mortally wounded.

He restrung it, tuned it with a perseverance that could be understood only as love, and once again accompanied the songs of the past, sung with the good voice and bad ear that neither years nor troubled memories had changed.

Someone had restrung the tangle of drooping gray cables on the back wall.

Kiyomori took his favorite bow from its case, restrung it, and then went down a passage to look for his wife.

Two of the fistmeles proved to be too small and those bows had to be restrung when their strings had been shortened.

And Rodney Quick was not about to spend all his waking hours restringing ganglia, growing compatible muscle fiber, popping in a junkyard of synEyes, synLivers, synLungs—.

In the archers' quarter men were restringing their bows, a few on horseback aiming practice shots at a swaying man of straw and sacking, others, on foot, at random targets hung upon poles.