What is "rewound"

Usage examples of "rewound".

Slightly puzzled, shrugging, I carried my bag and the recorder up to my room, rewound the tape I had collected, and started it to run through while I took off my city suit and turned the air-conditioning to high.

Martian night crashed down on the red landscape, John Star was ready on the platform of the north tower, his pocket light-tube in hand, its coils rewound to increase its brilliance a thousand-fold.

I pressed the stop button and it immediately rewound and started to play on its own.

When he was certain it was over, he rewound the tape in his machine and watched through the Brier Island story again and again.