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Retread   /ritrˈɛd/   Listen
Retread

noun
1.
A used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads.  Synonym: recap.






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"Retread" Quotes from Famous Books



... ruminating, very composedly, on the opposite bank. It is not ascertained, whether his companion had got across the water, or gone back again by the way they had approached it: whether the young hero was meditating how it might be passed; or too weary, or unwilling, to retread all his former steps. Who shall pretend to say, that this child, thus sitting, in a state of abstraction, by the side of an impassable piece of water, might not first feel that ardent thirst of nautical knowledge excited, the gratification of which has ...
— The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) • James Harrison



Words linked to "Retread" :   renew, remould, process, auto tire, recap, rubber tire, work, automobile tire, regenerate, car tire, work on



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