reclaimer

Variant of reclaim

reclaim definition

re·claim (ri klām′)

transitive verb

  1. to rescue or bring back (a person or people) from error, vice, etc. to ways of living or thinking regarded as right; reform
  2. to make (wasteland, desert, etc.) capable of being cultivated or lived on, as by filling, ditching, or irrigating
  3. to recover (useful materials) from waste products
  4. Obsolete to tame or subdue (a hawk)

Etymology: ME reclaimen < OFr réclamer < L reclamare, to cry out against: see re- & claim

noun

reclamation beyond reclaim

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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