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Netter vs Tetter - What's the difference?

netter | tetter |

As nouns the difference between netter and tetter

is that netter is one who nets (in any sense), or who uses a net while tetter is any of various pustular skin conditions.

As a verb tetter is

to affect with tetter .

netter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who nets (in any sense), or who uses a net.
  • * 1891 , Samuel Wilmot, “Salmon Fisheries of the Bay des Chaleurs”, in Part II of Supplement No. 1 to the Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries 1890 , Brown Chamberlin (publisher), page 30:
    • In England and in Scotland, after centuries of experience, the netter has been so restricted in the use of the destructive engines which were formerly in use there that at the present time many of the more important rivers continue to uphold almost their original standard of fish,—thus actually benefiting the tidal fisherman, the rivers' proprietors, and all concerned.
  • * 2004 , Cristiana S. Seixas and Fikret Berkes, “Stakeholder Conflicts and Solutions across Political Scales: the Ibiraquera Lagoon, Brazil”, chapter eight of Leontine E. Visser (editor), Challenging Coasts: Transdisciplinary Excursions into Integrated Coastal Zone Development , Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 978-90-5356-682-4, page 190:
    • The conflict between gill-netters' and cast-'''netters''' has existed at least since the 1940s. The conflict is about resource allocation since gill-' netters , who are only a few in number, capture much more resources with less human effort than the large majority of fishers who use cast nets.
  • An Internet user.
  • * 2005 , David T. Hill, Krishna Sen, The Internet in Indonesia's new democracy (page 61)
    • The vast majority of Indonesian netters use landlines, either from home or office, or from a public Internet access point.

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    tetter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various pustular skin conditions.
  • *, II.3.2:
  • *:Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.
  • *1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
  • *:She works at St. Veronica’s hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases—greensickness, tetter , kibes, purples, imposthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To affect with tetter .
  • * 1603 , '', Act 1, Scene 5, 1998, Kathleen O. Irace (editor), ''The First Quarto of Hamlet , page 50,
    • And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over.
  • * 1987 , James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death , page 134,
    • Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague.
  • * 2009 , Adam Thorpe, Hodd , 2010, page 284,
    • I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that were not the botches and whelks of leprosy — though e'en then I would have embraced him, as St Hugh of Lincoln kissed many a leper for the good of his own spirit!