ret
(verb) place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue
Source: WordNet® 3.1
retting (countable and uncountable, plural rettings)
The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and similar processes.
A place where flax is retted; a rettery.
• (preparation of flax): rotting
• gittern, gritten
Source: Wiktionary
Ret"ting, n.
1. The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, meceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret. Ure.
2. A place where flax is retted; a rettery. Ure.
Ret, v. t.
Definition: See Aret. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Ret, v. t. Etym: [Akin to rot.]
Definition: To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment. Ure.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
