n. 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.
v. Simple past tense and past participle of treat.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
3d pers. sing. pres. of tread, for treadeth.
n. 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.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In com., an allowance formerly made to purchasers of certain kinds of goods on account of their being obliged to transport their purchases.
Word Usage
"It is a labor to task the faculties of a man — such problems of profit and loss, of interest, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand a universal knowledge."