re-lay

American  

[ree-ley] / riˈleɪ /

Or relay

verb (used with object)

re-laid, re-laying

1. to lay again.

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Etymology

Origin of re-lay

First recorded in 1580–90; re- + lay ¹

Example Sentences

If it’s fixing the surface we’ll re-lay it, if it’s new we build from the foundations up.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2018

To re-create the feeling of the landscape, Woods must re-lay the bricks of every street—hence his indignation, when reviews of his translations praise the author’s prose as if it were not his as well.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2016

You learned to clean and re-lay the dirty, coal-heated, gas-fired boiler.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2014

His was the harder, the more hopeless task, to re-lay foundations which had been torn up and scattered, and then begin to build upon them.

From Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. by Connecticut, Diocese Of

When you're sent to cut through an icy rock or re-lay the steel across the gap a snowslide has made, it's obvious if you have done the job or not.

From The Girl from Keller's by Bindloss, Harold