What is "repassed"

Usage examples of "repassed".

One of every three and a-half men upon whom the gates of the Stockade closed never repassed them alive.

Out of the corner of his eye Crosby also noted with some interest the hesitating hoverings of a human figure, which had passed and repassed his seat two or three times at shortening intervals, like a wary crow about to alight near some possibly edible morsel.