What is "refighting"

Usage examples of "refighting".

Within the cab a smell of mustiness contended feebly with the sickening reek of a cigar which the man was forever refighting and which as often turned cold between his teeth.

He thought the idea of refighting the Civil War with electronic simulacra, manufactured at our factory in Boise, was a civic enterprise, a do-gooding patriotic effort along the lines of improving the schools and reclaiming the deserts, not a business proposition at all.