ret
see also: RET
Pronunciation
RET
Noun
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see also: RET
Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ɹɛt/
From Middle English retten, reten; perhaps from Middle Dutch rēten, reeten (compare Middle Low German rōten; Middle High German rōzen), or from Old Norse reyta (compare Norwegian røyta, Swedish röta); all from Proto-Germanic *rautijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *rewd-.
Verbret (rets, present participle retting; simple past and past participle retted)
- (transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
- 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVIII:
- the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 621:
- 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
Abbreviation.
Adjective Nounret (plural rets)
- (printing, historical) Short for reiteration.
RET
Noun
ret
- Init of road equivalent tariff
- Initialism of rational emotive behavior therapy
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