Crossword-Solution: RETTING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retting | n. | The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret. |
| Retting | n. | A place where flax is retted; a rettery. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETTING | anagram | GITTERN |
We have 1 clue for the answer “RETTING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| SOAKING stems in water and beating out the fibers/fibres, method of | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RETTING (5)
Blacksmiths, locksmiths, tool-makers sometimes express this state by saying the iron is retting, appropriating a word applied exclusively to hemp, which is reduced to pulp and fibre by maceration.
This must be retted, carded, spun and woven, and then with scissors, needle and thread I will make you any article of clothing you choose.' We decided that Flamingo Marsh would be the best spot for the operation of steeping or `retting' the flax, and next morning we set out thither; the cart drawn by the ass, and laden with the bundles, between which sat Franz and Knips, while the rest of us followed with spades and hatchets.
The process is known as "retting," and after it is completed the fibres are easily isolated from each other.
The bacillus which produces the "retting" is known now, however, and it has been shown that the "retting" is a process of decomposition of the pectin cement.
Putrefaction attacks all kinds of vegetable tissue, and if this "retting" continues too long the desired fibre is decidedly injured by the softening effect of the fermentation.
Quotes with RETTING (1)
A modern woman sees a piece of linen, but the mediaeval woman saw through it to the flax fields, she smelt the reek of the retting ponds, she felt the hard rasp of the hackling, and she saw the soft sheen of the glossy flax. Man did not see 'just leather', he saw the beast - perhaps one of his own - and knew the effort of slaughtering, liming and curing. Communities were smaller and whether our man lived on the outskirts of some feudal system, had escaped from it, or was enti…