Definition of "regaining"

We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.

1842, The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, page 339

The left knee is placed as far back and as near the median line as possible; the spine is strongly bent to the right. The creeping consists of forward locomotion by a series of reversals and regainings of the position described.

1926, Samuel Kleinberg, Scoliosis: Rotary Lateral Curvature of the Spine, page 194