rehandle

present singular third person rehandles · participle present rehandling · participle past rehandled · past rehandled

1. transitiveTo handle again.

   Its author is still concerned primarily with man on earth, rehandling in a new perspective an ancient theme: that man, each man and all men, and all their works shall die.

   1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 21

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   Nevertheless, while keeping a close eye on Melissa's sleeping form, he managed to paw her clothing a second time. Only after he'd resqueezed and rehandled each piece of it did he conclude that the Mexican A was in the big zippered outer pocket of her bag.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

2. transitiveTo furnish with a new handle; to replace the handle of.