re-string

vb (tr)

1. (Jewellery) to thread onto a new string

2. (Instruments) to fit with new strings

3. (Tennis) to fit with new strings

4. (Archery) to fit with new strings

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4 RICKENBACKER 12 GUITAR STRINGS I used to work at a guitar repair shop and everyone, including the seasoned pros would always dread having to re-string one of these things.

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"God knows how many times I've had to re-string it though."

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"The last one he had to re-string was sent from South Africa.

A court order in the secret garden; The sport of tennis is captured on canvas in a new art exhibition but, as Lorne Jackson reveals, the game's roots lie in a quiet Birmingham street

That means it's time to re-string those rods, clean up the tackle-box, throw away that ball of melted rubber-worms from last year, untangle those trot-lines and get ready to fish.

Hang up the camo, bring on the fish

e s ar "If Mick asked me to fetch him a beer, re-string his guitar or even iron his trousers before the show I'd still be honoured."

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The beauty of electric fencing is it is completely portable and adaptable; when the goats have eaten their way through a patch of troublesome scrub, I just pull the plastic stakes out of the ground, re-site them somewhere else, and then re-string the metal-threaded tape through the hooks.

The goats meet their match

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