Definition of "refit"
refit
verb
third-person singular simple present refits, present participle refitting, simple past and past participle refitted or refit
(transitive) To fit again; to put back into its place.
Quotations
The truth is they made no great scruple, at least for that one time, to come under the Stern of their Neighbouring Common-wealth, thereby to have better leisure to recollect and refit the scattered planks and pieces of their own broken Republic.
1677, Philip Meadows, A Narrative of the Principal Actions Occurring in the Wars Betwixt Sueden and Denmark, London: A.C. and H. Brome, pp. 122-123
[…] I have seen a Man ride with both his feet upon the Saddle, take off his Saddle, and at his return take it up again, refit, and remount it, riding all the while full speed;
1685, chapter 48, in Charles Cotton, transl., Essays of Michael, seigneur de Montaigne, volume 1, London: T. Basset and W. Hensman, page 558
(transitive) To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.
Quotations
But these [aqueducts] by the sloth and carelesness of the Greeks and Turks falling to decay and rendred useless, were restored and refitted by the Emperor Suleiman, who was so intent upon this great work, that he said he would go on with it, although the laying every stone stood him in a purse of money […]
1678, Thomas Smith, Remarks upon the Manners, Religion and Government of the Turks, London: Moses Pitt, page 323
[…] all the three theatres have been repeatedly altered, and refitted, and enlarged, to make them capacious of the crowds, that nightly flock to them;
1797, Edmund Burke, A third letter to a Member of the present Parliament: on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France, London: F. and C. Rivington, pages 138–139
(transitive) To fit out or supply again (with something).
Quotations
For what can be more comfortable then to be asserted from the power of the grave, and rescued from death and mortality, to have our Soul refitted with Organs, and all the bodily powers awakened again so as to lose nothing by our fall;
1679, John Goodman, chapter 5, in The Penitent Pardoned, London: R. Royston, page 332
(intransitive, nautical) To prepare a vessel for use again (e.g. by replenishing depleted supplies or doing maintenance or repair work); (of a vessel) to be prepared for use again.
Quotations
[…] I discovered two Gallies making towards Nicita, whom I saluted with two Cannons, which I levelled and fired my self, so happily, that one of them being shot through between wind and water, was fain to go off to refit, and the other had three or four slaves killed.
1669, uncredited translator, Memoires of Henry, D. of Guise, London: Henry Herringman, Book 5, p. 499