Garret vs Ret - What's the difference?
garret | ret |
An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
* 1660 , Samuel Pepys Diary'', January 1.
* {{quote-book, year=1866, author= (translated by Constance Garnett), title=Crime and Punishment, section=Part I, Chapter I
, passage=On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=, title=Lilith
, passage=I was in the main garret , with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights.}}
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:
* 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 621:
retired
As nouns the difference between garret and ret
is that garret is an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house while ret is net.garret
English
Noun
(en noun)- This morning (we living lately in the garret ,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.
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Derived terms
* like a cat in a strange garretAnagrams
* *ret
English
Etymology 1
Precise origin uncertain; perhaps related to Middle Dutch ).Verb
(rett)- the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].
- 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