Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.
  • transitive verb To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.

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  • verb To land again.
  • verb To return to shore after having embarked.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ land

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Examples

  • Last-minute desperate attempt to reland her man, Noelle confirmed.

    Paradise Lost Kate Brian 2009

  • Last-minute desperate attempt to reland her man, Noelle confirmed.

    Paradise Lost Kate Brian 2009

  • If we do live in a 4 - (or 20) dimensional space time universe, and we can only move forward in time under normal circumstances, the solution to going to other parts of that space-time continuum is to get out of the space-time continuum completely and then reland in it wherever and whenever we want to.

    Rules for Time Travelers Sean 2009

  • And came back on about 15 minutes later and said that we were going stay in Boston, try to reland here.

    CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2005 2005

  • And came back on about 15 minutes later and said we were going to stay in Boston and try to reland here.

    CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2005 2005

  • The chiefs promised that, if we would reland our goods and remain with them, the man we protected should go without molestation on board the brig; but, if we persevered in leaving them, the man should be killed before our eyes.

    A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle

  • Coasting ships were to give bonds double the value of vessel and cargo to reland their freight in some port of the United States.

    Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900

  • As it was from Boston that I had taken my departure, so I resolved to reland there, and thence to retrace my steps to the scenes of my youth, as the first means towards obtaining, if possible, some clew to the object of my search.

    The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive 1852

  • As it was from Boston that I had taken my departure, so I resolved to reland there, and thence to retrace my steps to the scenes of my youth, as the first means towards obtaining, if possible, some clew to the object of my search.

    The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive Hildreth, Richard 1852

  • Association begins its packed summer schedule with the biennial Curtis Cup Match between teams from the United States and Great Britain & reland.

    13WHAM: Top Stories 2010

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