rewalt

English

Etymology

From Middle English *rewalten, equivalent to re- +‎ walt.

Verb

rewalt (third-person singular simple present rewalts, present participle rewalting, simple past and past participle rewalted)

1. (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.

2. (transitive, rare, obsolete) To give up; surrender

Anagrams

• Lawter, Walter