new-vamp

Nor ought I to be afraid of I know not what botchers of old threadbare stuff, a hundred and a hundred times clouted up and pieced together; wretched bunglers that can do nothing but new-vamp old rusty saws; beggarly scavengers that rake even the muddiest canals of antiquity for scraps and bits of Latin as insignificant as they are often uncertain.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Nor ought I to be afraid of I know not what botchers of old threadbare stuff, a hundred and a hundred times clouted up and pieced together; wretched bunglers that can do nothing but new-vamp old rusty saws; beggarly scavengers that rake even the muddiest canals of antiquity for scraps and bits of Latin as insignificant as they are often uncertain.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

A disciple of Saint Crispin, he came with hammer and awl to shoe the Alamancers, thus typifying his more important mission, which was to harness with sound doctrine the souls of his new and simple neighbours, and new-vamp their minds, so as to enable them to walk unhurt over the briers and sharp stones of this thorny wilderness.

Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847

The only chants made wore for the better; the occasion having been improved, to paint and new-vamp the house, which

Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Nor ought I to be afraid of I know not what botchers of old threadbare stuff, a hundred and a hundred times clouted up and pieced together; wretched bunglers that can do nothing but new-vamp old rusty saws; beggarly scavengers that rake even the muddiest canals of antiquity for scraps and bits of Latin as insignificant as they are often uncertain.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518