re-lay
See also: relay
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re-lay (third-person singular simple present re-lays, present participle re-laying, simple past and past participle re-laid)
- (transitive) To lay (for example, flooring or railroad track) again.
- relay the pitch (football)
- He had to re-lay the tiles because the cement was too dry.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
- 2019 November 6, Andy Coward, “Fuelling additional rail freight traffic”, in Rail, page 58:
- BP re-laid and extended the track to provide two half-length loading roads, two half-length stabling sidings, and a reception siding.
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