Definition of Retteries

1. Noun. (plural of rettery) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retteries

1. rettery [n] - See also: rettery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retteries

retroviruses
retrovision
retrude
retruded
retrusion
retrusive excursion
retrusive occlusion
retry
retrying
rets
retsina
retsina wine
retsinas
retted
retter
retteries
rettery
retting
rettings
retube
retubed
retubes
retubing
retubings
retunable
retund
retunded
retunding
retunds
retune

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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