retread

To replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads.

To renew the tread of a tyre, providing a cheaper alternative to buying a new tyre, but potentially introducing a risk of premature failure if performed improperly.

There was no evidence to suggest that the fact that both tyres had been retreaded 3 times was a factor in the failure occurrence. This type of aircraft tyre (Type VII) is routinely retreaded 6 times or more before being taken out of service.

A used tire whose surface, the tread, has been replaced to extend its life and use.

A person who re-entered military service in World War II after serving in World War I.

In Our War the Retreads usually slinked in over-aged, over-weight and overcautious in the face of a new generation.

They were retreads and recruits under a small cadre of Regular Army officers and noncoms.

To tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.

As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.