rettery

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English

Etymology

From ret +‎ -ery.

Noun

rettery (plural retteries)

  1. A place or establishment where flax is retted.
    • 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
      The most perfect adaptation of Schenck's system is at the rettery of M. Auguste Scrive, near Lille […] . Tanks of wood or stone are used, each to contain two and a half tons of flax straw

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rettery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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