"Reclaim" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
To claim or demand back; to ask for tbe return or restoration of a thing; to Insist upon one’s right to recover that which was one’s own, but was parted with conditionally or mistakenly; as, to reclaim goods which were obtained from one nnder false pretenses
To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under
discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also
of other animals.
To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call
to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or
transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to
reform.
To exclaim against; to gainsay.
To draw back; to give way.
To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim
against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed;
reclamation; recovery.
To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to
attempt to recover possession of.
To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a
certain customary call.
Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline,
labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert,
waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed
land, etc.
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
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