retying

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of retie

noun

1. The act of tying something again.

   “March 31, 1885, Mark Twain, speech at the Tile Club Dinner for Laurence Hutton I found that a new oath holds pretty well; but that when it is become old and frayed out and damaged by a dozen annual retyings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.”