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rehair

rehair verb: to renew the hair of the bow of a bowed string instrument.

Verb

rehair (third-person singular simple present rehairs, present participle rehairing, simple past and past participle rehaired)

  1. To renew the hair of the bow of a bowed string instrument.
    • Could you rehair my bow by tomorrow?

Noun

rehair (plural rehairs)

  1. An instance of re-hairing.
    • I've heard he does excellent rehairs.

Forms of rehair

Verb
third-person singular presentrehairs
present participlerehairing
past participlerehaired
pastrehaired
alternative formre-hair
Noun
pluralrehairs

Origin of rehair

From re- + hair.

Questions about rehair

What does rehair mean?
Rehair means to renew the hair of the bow of a bowed string instrument.
What part of speech is rehair?
Rehair can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of rehair?
The past tense of rehair is rehaired.

Words near rehair in the dictionary

  1. rehabituation
  2. rehabituations
  3. rehabituative
  4. rehabs
  5. rehad
  6. rehair
  7. rehaired
  8. rehairing
  9. rehairings
  10. rehairs
  11. Rehak

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