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- verb Present participle of
re-lay .
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Examples
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The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the prison.
Les Miserables 2008
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The public has to pay interest on this sum, and suffer besides the damage done to the pavements by tearing up and re-laying.
Monopolies and the People Charles Whiting Baker
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If the pursuers waited here for such a complicated piece of work as this tearing up and re-laying of the track, they might lose the race altogether.
Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War Edward Robins 1902
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The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the prison.
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As the troops were at work in re-laying the track, there was no danger.
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 George S. Boutwell 1861
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The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the prison.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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The waiters leapt into action, re-laying the table just in time for David to repeat his trick on the way back.
Evening Standard - Home Miles Jupp 2011
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Once a section had been mined, it would be rehabilitated by the re-laying of soil on the quarry floor, thereby returning the land to farming.
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"We had basically just started re-laying the block."
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"We had basically just started re-laying the block."
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