recap

1. (Canada, US) To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing on a new outer portion.Examples: "They buy a lot of camelback because they recap a lot of truck tires for trailer fleets."; "In 1942 almost 86,000,000 pounds of camelback—a 25-percent increase over 1941—were made available for recapping purposes, and the output of this product is continually increasing. Dealer establishments are as busy as beehives. They have about 90 percent of the recapping equipment. In the testimony before you yesterday one of the proponents of this bill admitted that independent dealers had 88 percent of all the recapping machinery there is in the United States. We estimate that it is probably about that figure, although we thought it was a little higher, probably 90 percent. In addition to recapping tires for the general public, they also are doing this work on Government-owned tires, including the military, with the result that the independent dealer has retreaded hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tires, at a substantial profit, during said period."; "Are recapped tires safe? This is obviously the thing to know before you consider buying recaps."Synonyms: retread#VerbCanadaUS