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Definition of Rettery
1. n. A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret.
Definition of Rettery
1. Noun. A place or establishment where flax is retted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rettery
1. a place where flax is retted [n RETTERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rettery
Literary usage of Rettery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Farmer's Magazine (1865)
"We had therefore to fall back upon tlic flax-rettery system. The whole operation
of steeping and cleaning the fibre was performed in the ..."
2. The Flax Industry; and Its Importance and Progress: Also Its Cultivation and by E. F. Deman (1852)
"In the selection of a site for a rettery the following requisites, which are all of
... CONSTRUCTION OF A rettery. To explain the construction of a ..."
3. The Flax Industry: Its Importance and Progress: Also Its Cultivation and by E F. Deman (1852)
"In the selection of a site for a rettery the following requisites, ... To explain
the construction of a rettery building I cannot do better than give almost ..."
4. The Year-book of Agriculture, Or, the Annual of Agricultural Progress and by David Ames Wells (1856)
"The farmer does not grow flax for the want of the rettery, and the rettery is
not established for want of the flax. Another difficulty arises out of the ..."
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