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reclaim

noun

Meaning

  • The calling back of a hawk.

  • The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.

  • An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

verb

Meaning

  • To return land to a suitable condition for use.

  • To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

  • To claim something back; to repossess.

  • To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

  • To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

  • To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

  • To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

  • To draw back; to give way.

  • To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.