reclaim

Definitions

• (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
• (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
• (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
• (transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
• (transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
• (transitive) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
• (transitive) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
• (obsolete) To draw back; to give way.
• (intransitive) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.