tret
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tret
1490–1500; < Anglo-French, variant of trait act of drawing; see trait
Example Sentences
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After that, Bach was the appropriate encore, and the group played his gorgeous final chorale, “Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit,” with Ms. Figueroa soaring in the theme and the others offering sensitive, moving support.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2013
Wo worth that wight that tret ech under fote!
From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cloff, klof, n. an allowance, on buying goods wholesale, of 2 lb. in every 3 cwt., after tare and tret have been deducted.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
At length, safe arrived, I went thro' "tare and tret," Delivered my goods in the primest condition.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
It is a labor to task the faculties of a man—such problems of profit and loss, of interest, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand a universal knowledge.
From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
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