Meanings of repoint in English

Jeremy and I learned how to repoint brickwork and so on.

How often you reckon you have to repoint a chimney?

They are regular arrows, but I made the man shorten them so as to suit the bow, and then repoint them.

For two hours nearly he wrote away steadily, rarely changing or erasing a word, stopping only to repoint the lead of his pencil.

When the warehouses came to be reinstated, it was only found necessary to repair and repoint them a little, and they were retained in use.

The man repointed the car, his laugh ending in a belch.

Typically, you pay per hour of labour for brick layers and repointing rather than the overall job.

During the past year, the brickwork has been fully restored and repointed and new timber sash windows installed.

Its carefully repointed pink granite walls are in sharp contrast to dark grey granite walls which line the lanes.

Mr. Benny might have seized the occasion to urge that his roof leaked and the quay wall beneath his office badly needed repointing.

The timber beams in the roof are now (1903) undergoing thorough restoration, and the outer walls of the chapel are being repointed.

Most external cracks are just part of the patina and can be cut out and easily refilled and skimmed; repointing old bricks is straightforward.

Yes, there will be fun and excitement, but your boiler will break down, your chimney will need repointing, your cavity wall insulation will need replacing.