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say it: ret
ret is a verb meaning "place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue". It is pronounced /ˈɹɛt/ — ret. It carries one recorded sense.
place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ret come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.