retying

Noun

 * 1) The act of tying something again.
 * 2) * March 31, 1885,, 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.