reclaim

Meanings

Verb

• To return land to a suitable condition for use.
• To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
• To claim something back; to repossess.
• To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
• To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
• To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
• To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
• To draw back; to give way.
• To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
• To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.

Noun

• The calling back of a hawk.
• The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
• An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

Origin

• From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclamo.