Puer vs Puet - What's the difference?
puer | puet |
(chiefly, historical) Canine faeces used as a lye in tanning.
* 1903 , Henry Richardson Proctor, The principles of leather manufacture , page 174:
* 2009 , Tony Covington, Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather , page 166:
As nouns the difference between puer and puet
is that puer is pair (set of two) while puet is (obsolete) a bird, the peewit.puer
English
Noun
(-)- The bacteria of fresh dog-dung were not found to possess a satisfactory puering effect, but those from dung with had been fermented a month (as in practice) have a result nearly equal to actual puer .
- it was about 50 years before the use of puer was discontinued, at least in Europe.