restem

re- +‎ stem

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈstɛm/

restem (third-person singular simple present restems, present participle restemming, simple past and past participle restemmed)

1. To force back against the current.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     to restem their backward course

2. To stem, or move against.

   to restem a current

“restem”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Emerts, Mester, S meter, Tesmer, merest, mester, meters, metres, termes

restem

1. inflection of restar:
   1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. first-person plural imperative

restem

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of restō

restem

1. accusative singular of restis

restem

1. inflection of restar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative