retoss

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ toss.

Verb

retoss (third-person singular simple present retosses, present participle retossing, simple past and past participle retossed)

To toss again; to throw back.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  Compare unto him the vulgar troupes of our men, stupide, base, servile, wavering, and continually floting on the tempestuous ocean of divers passions which tosse and retosse the same, wholy depending of others.

Anagrams

RTOSes, Restos, Sostre, restos, rosest, rosets, sorest, sortes, stores, torses, tosser, tsores

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