rehaul

English

Etymology

re- +‎ haul

Verb

rehaul (third-person singular simple present rehauls, present participle rehauling, simple past and past participle rehauled)

1. (transitive) To haul again.
   • 1921, United States. War Dept. Claims Board, Decisions of the Appeal section, volume 5, page 485:

     Certainly there is nothing in the letter to obligate the Government to pay for the rehauling of the 3,421 tons of coal from the storage point to the claimant's powerhouse.

2. (transitive) To overhaul.
   • 1998, John McCannon, Red Arctic, page 62:

     Almost immediately, however, trouble with the throttle forced the ship to make a short stop in Copenhagen, site of its manufacture, to have its engine rehauled.

   • 2005, Jessica Bird, Beauty and the Black Sheep:

     She glared at the exposed pipes over her desk. Plumbing that needed to be rehauled.

Anagrams

• haleru, hauler