Retting

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  • n. The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and similar processes.
  • n. A place where flax is retted; a rettery.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See ret.
  • n. A place where flax is retted; a rettery.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The process of steeping flax in open water, or its exposure, in thin layers, to dew, in which the woody part of the stalk is, by action of moisture and air, rendered easily separable from the fiber or harl.
  • n. The place where this operation is carried on; a rettery.
    • Word Usage
    "In warmer countries such as Egypt, this step—called retting—can be done in water, but it results in polluted water."
    Cross Reference
    warm-water retting    steam retting    hot-water retting    mixed retting   
    Variant
    rotting    ret   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rettery   
    Verb Stem
    ret   
     
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