reworkingn.

?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xiv. 55 The repetition and action of ruminating, reconcocting, trying by the whetstone of reason, and reworking of it [Fr. & encores plus elabourer], to frame a resolution more solide: this is iudgement.

1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa i. xxxi. 46 By working and reworking, they cause the rest of the Earth to precipitate to the bottom of the Cask.

1728 Abridgem. Statutes rel. to Excise 305 The duties for the Cocoa Nuts, wherewith such chocolate was made and for what Cocoa Nuts were added thereto in the reworking thereof, have been paid.

1873 W. D. Whitney Oriental & Ling. Stud. 267 There has been no thorough reworking of those parts of the lecture.

1939 P. D. Trask Recent Marine Sediments iii. 197 This type of bedding indicates frequent reworking of the sediments under the influence of currents of varying strength and direction.

1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 157 Reworking of butter invariably increases the count and also increases the size of the water globules.

1977 Early Music 5 581/1 I think it is a pity that the models of the two known reworkings are not identified more clearly.

2006 Metro (Toronto) 18 Aug. 20/1 News of a bilingual reworking of Lethal Weapon..will make them wonder whether they're having some kind of cerebral event, or if the producers were when they greenlit the project.