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Dret vs Ret - What's the difference?

dret | ret |

As a verb dret

is ; (drite).

As a noun ret is

net.

dret

English

Verb

(head)
  • ; (drite)
    • ----

    drite

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dryte

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To defecate.

    • References

    * “ drite, v. ]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    ret

    English

    Etymology 1

    Precise origin uncertain; perhaps related to Middle Dutch ).

    Verb

    (rett)
  • To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
  • * 1989 , (Keith Bosley), translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala , XLVIII:
    • the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].
  • * 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 621:
    • the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring
    Derived terms
    * retter

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • retired

    • Anagrams

    * * ----