reretreat

plural reretreats

1. a second retreat.

   Nuruddin feigned reretreat.

   1968, Mohammed Akbar Khan, Sultan Salahuddin Yousaf Ayubi versus the crusaders

   2 more examples

   However, the ice sheet did not pass away by continuous and steady recession but by oscillations, readvances and reretreats; and some of the readvances may have covered considerable territory and have seriously changed the drainage.

   1913, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 145

   The ice margin had many oscillations, readvances and reretreats, each probably covering many thousands of years.

   1920, Science, page 285