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At the end of the present season the expedition will take a recess for refitment and an American lecture tour.

From Time Magazine Archive

The voyages, ship construction, refitment and victualling were matters that could only be advised by the skilled seamen.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

They lie in the Pacific Ocean, much nearer to this continent than the other, and have become an important place for the refitment and provisioning of American and European vessels.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

The troops released from Gallipoli wanted a lot of refitment, and would be slow in reaching the Transcaucasian frontier, where the Russians were threatening.

From Greenmantle by Buchan, John

Agamemnon is then to go to Gibraltar, for something like a refitment, having been without the slightest repair, in hull or rigging, sixteen months.

From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by Harrison, James