resowing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of resow

plural resowings

1. A second or subsequent sowing.

   In Scotland the visitation was worst in the south; scarcely a Turnip field is stated to have escaped in the counties of Kirkcudbright and Dumfries, and resowings were requisite in many cases twice, in some a third time.

   1882, Eleanor Anne Ormerod, Miscellaneous Papers on Economic Entomology, page 4