† reˈparelling, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. prec. + -ing1.]
The action of repairing, restoring, fitting out, clothing, etc.; also Sc. furnishings, furniture.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter ci. 19 Of destruccioun of adam and of reparaylynge thorgh crist. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xix. 87 When þai hafe mister of any monee for reparailyng of þaire kirk. 1497 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 144 The fortyfying Reparalyng amendyng & fynyssyng of the dokke. 1534 in Noake Worcester Mon. (1866) 192 For the rep[ar]ylyng and geryng of y⊇ fyve horses, xijs. 1559 in Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 378 Casting down of kirkis, religious placis, or [the] reparrelling thairof. 1579 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 405 M{supr} Rychard Williams..gave iiijli to the repareling of the poore in the almeshowse. |