"Water-Ret" is a word in ENGLISH
To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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Alt. of -retted
Read the complete definitionThe woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
Read the complete definitionTo ret or rot by the process called dewretting.
Read the complete definitionLat. In the civil and old Eng-llsh law. A mouth. Mcnsis ret it us, the pro-hibited month; fence-month, (q. v
Read the complete definitionTo prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and …
Read the complete definitionSee Aret.
Read the complete definitionContaining two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule.
Read the complete definitionA place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret.
Read the complete definitionThe act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See …
Read the complete definitionA place where flax is retted; a rettery.
Read the complete definitionTo expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
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Read the complete definitionTo rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
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