different between remast vs repast

English

Etymology

re- +? mast

Verb

remast (third-person singular simple present remasts, present participle remasting, simple past and past participle remasted)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.
   • 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, 1998, Chapter 7,

     In a few days now the Dawn Treader, remasted, repainted, and well stored, was ready to sail.

Anagrams

• 'maters, Amster, METARs, Master, Stream, armest, armets, master, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, stream, tamers, tremas, trémas

English

Etymology

Old French repast, from the verb repaistre, from Latin repascere, from pascere (“to graze”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p??st/
• (US, Northern England) IPA^(key): /???pæst/

Noun

repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)

1. (now literary) A meal.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast.

   • 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like

     "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast."

2. (archaic, uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.

Translations

Verb

repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take food.

Anagrams

• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps

Old French

Noun

repast m (oblique plural repaz or repatz, nominative singular repaz or repatz, nominative plural repast)

1. a meal

Descendants

• ? English: repast
• French: repas