Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
tret (plural trets)
(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.
tret
(Yorkshire, Geordie, colloquial) simple past tense and past participle of treat
• tert-, tetr-
Source: Wiktionary
Tret, obs.
Definition: 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth. Chaucer.
Tret, n. Etym: [F. traite a drawing, trading, journey, tax on wares in transit, anything diminishing the value of coins, fr. OF. traire to draw, L. trahere. See Trait.] (Com.)
Definition: An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted. M'Culloch.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.