rewet

English

Etymology 1

re- +‎ wet

Verb

rewet (third-person singular simple present rewets, present participle rewetting, simple past and past participle rewet or rewetted)

1. (transitive) To wet again.

Etymology 2

See rouet.

Noun

rewet (plural rewets)

1. A gunlock.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rewet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• 'twere, Ewert, tweer