rewalt
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English *rewalten, equivalent to re- + walt.
Verb
editrewalt (third-person singular simple present rewalts, present participle rewalting, simple past and past participle rewalted)
- (transitive, rare) To overturn; throw down.
- 1894, John Knox Laughton, Defeat of the Spanish Armada:
- They say his errand is to see the galleass, that is utterly rewalted and sunk in the sand, never to be recovered; and also to speak with them at Calais that was within the galleass, and now to go into Spain.
- (transitive, rare, obsolete) To give up; surrender