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Definition of Retteries
1. rettery [n] - See also: rettery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retteries
Literary usage of Retteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Ireland: A Practical and Non-political View of "Ireland for the by Robert Dennis (1887)
"... on the Wall—Room for Threefold Development—Difficulties to be overcome— Value
of a Model Flax-Farm —The After-manufacture— Central retteries—Flax- ..."
2. British Farmer's Magazine (1854)
"The manufacturers, in their eagerness to obtain a supply, will be inclined to
make a little dash in establishing retteries. The manufacturers are the ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1875)
"Machines were purchased and set up, and £180 laid out in constructing 'retteries'
to steep the flax, and an Irish scutcher engaged. ..."
4. The Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853: A Detailed Catalogue of Its by John Sproule (1854)
"The specimens contained in the Exhibition included series from two Irish retteries,
those of Messrs. Hughes, of Clonmel, and Hay, ..."
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