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Tret vs Cloff - What's the difference?

tret | cloff |

As nouns the difference between tret and cloff

is that tret is traitor while cloff is formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

tret

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably by analogy with Germanic verbs such as meet, met.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Yorkshire, colloquial) (treat)
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    cloff

    English

    Alternative forms

    * clough

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

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