overhaulin

"Huh! think you're smart, don't you, overhaulin 'me so easy," he told them disdainfully.

The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats George A. Warren

"Now, then," he added, "I'm goin 'to give this here boat an overhaulin' from stem to stern."

Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat Ross Kay

` ` Now, then, '' he added, ` ` I'm goin 'to give this here boat an overhaulin' from stem to stern. ''

The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat 1916

She's done more swabbin 'decks and overhaulin' runnin 'riggin' than a new mate on a clipper.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But he soon regained his wits an '-- evidently calculatin' that his only salvation layed in his overhaulin 'us -- lit out at a saprisin' gait in a grand effort to leave us far enough behind for him to catch up to us.

The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

"I think as we are overhaulin 'of them," remarked the boy.

The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

And there we stayed for a matter o 'two months, landin' our sick and our blacks, clearin 'out our ships' holds, cleanin ', careenin', scrapin ', paintin', overhaulin ', and refittin' generally, the blacks helpin 'us willin'ly enough when we made 'em understand what we wanted done.

The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886

Yellowstone adventurers to drive any of 'em no'th, I've got about 'leven outfits at work, overhaulin 'the herds an' round-ups, an 'ridin' round an 'through 'em, weedin' out my brand an 'throwin' 'em back on my Red

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

For after overhaulin 'his second's boat, they found out that they had come away from Saucelito ALONE.

Sally Dows Bret Harte 1869

Tommy Splint, as I said just now, I've cruised about far an 'near after this old woman as took charge o' my babby without overhaulin 'of her, for she seems to have changed her quarters pretty often; but I keep up my hopes, for I do feel as if I'd run her down at last -- her name was

The Garret and the Garden 1859