reˈfledge, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To fledge again. Hence reˈfledging vbl. n.
1829 Southey Pilgr. Compostella ii. xxi, In flew the feathers,..And the Cock and the Hen in a trice were refledged. 1850 Browning Easter Day xxiv, Scared if the South firmament With North-fire did its wings refledge! 1889 Pater G. de Latour (1896) 63 The flush and re-fledging of the black earth itself in that fervent springtide. |