re-weigh, v.
(riː-)
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To weigh again. Also absol.
| 1812 J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 400 Order for re⁓weighing Pimento, to be taken from the Pile. 1849 Ansted Gold-seeker's Man. 74 Weigh it first in air... Immerse it and re-weigh it in water. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 308 We re-weighing and opening in presence of English Post Office clerk. |
2. intr. To amount to (so much) on being weighed again.
| 1812 J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 405 Ten boxes of foreign clayed Sugar,..weighing, on delivery there, thirty-four hundred-weight and fifteen pounds, and re-weighing here thirty-four hundred-weight one quarter. |
Hence re-weighing vbl. n. Also re-weigher.
| 1812 J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 361 The Warehouse⁓keeper..subscribes the re-weighing Note. 1820 Ibid. (1821) 360 The necessary order for the re-weighing of three Casks of Currants. 1878 Olver & Midlane Imperial Tariff (1879) 82 The date of re-weighing or re-examination. 1883 Cable Dr. Sevier i, Cotton factors, buyers, brokers, weighers, re⁓weighers, etc. |