Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reëxamine or cross-examine.
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Examples
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"Or had he had the wit, like some of ourselves, to lay the scene in such a remote or distant country that nobody should be able to back-speer [Footnote: Scottish for cross-examine him.] him," said
The Betrothed Walter Scott 1801
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