Ret vs Tret - What's the difference?
ret | tret |
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
(obsolete) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted.
(Yorkshire, colloquial) (treat)
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As verbs the difference between ret and tret
is that ret is to prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem while tret is past tense of treat.As an adjective ret
is retired.As a noun tret is
an allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted.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
