respot verb 4noun 2forms 3 verb4 •To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table. •To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.Should a pin fall in removing the dead wood it must be respotted, and pins knocked over by pin or pins rebounding from any other alley must be respotted. — 1928 •To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.This method insures that the stopping of cars will not gradually fall out of tolerance with a consequent loss of time to respot. — 1963 •To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.Tack the work pieces with one spot and check for proper relative position of pieces. Sometimes the pieces can be separated and respotted if necessary. — 1966 noun2 •An operation in which commercial or military vehicles are respotted.Final recovery, respot and servicing may be conducted after this period. — 1980 •The final welding on a manufactured item.As pretacked bodies approach the automatic respot line on the body build trucks, the latches that hold them to the trucks are manually released. — 1979 formsrespotted · respotting · respots
