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Ret

verb

Place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue.

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"Ret" Quotes from Famous Books

... the deep green-mantled earth Warm cherish'd ev'ry flow'ret's birth, And joy and music pouring forth In ev'ry grove, I saw thee eye the general ...

— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... in our breasts was springing up A something lovelier far, Than field, or tree, or flow'ret's cup, Or sun, or moon, or star! We heeded not the fountain near, Its song of gladness singing, For in our hearts a fount more dear, And pure, and sweet, ...

— Mazelli, and Other Poems • George W. Sands

... the wood, Marg'ret, You're welcome here to me; A fairer bower than e'er you saw. I'll bigg this night ...

— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)

... the shroud did lurk A curious frame of Nature's work; A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying: So soon to exchange the imprisoning womb For darker closets of the tomb! She did but ope an ...

— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

Words linked to "Ret" : sop, douse, dowse, souse, drench, soak