remouiller

French

Etymology

From re- + mouiller.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.mu.je/

Verb

remouiller

  1. to rewet (wet again)
  2. (nautical) to recast (an anchor)
    • 2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès 2012, p. 17:
      L'ancre, levée une heure avant l'aube, comme l'exigeait le règlement, avait dû être remouillée tant était encore impénétrable l'obscurité.
      The anchor, weighed an hour before the dawn as regulation required, had had to be recast so impenetrable was the darkness.

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