Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mining) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th
fret , n., 4. - noun A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
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- noun A
vitreous compound , used bypotters inglazing , consisting oflime ,silica ,borax ,lead , andsoda .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Global Markets Overview: A sudden drop in the single currency reverses an early tentative advance for stocks as traders once again frett about the fragility of the eurozone economy
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Weerd luukeeng, shynee feengee poazziz no frett, butz
Classics: now with favorite buttons! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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'Ay,' says the waterman, 'and a great one too; why it blows a frett of wind.'
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Amy was frett - ing because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn't find her rubbers.
Little Women 1921
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We then brot. too again Under Our ballast main, it blowing a meer frett of wind att
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Sir, she did this nothing else but to prooue, whether a little thing would you mooue, to be angrie and frett: what and if one sayd so, let such trifling matters goe, and with a kinde kisse come out of her debt.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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You will, though you can frett mee, yet you can not
The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke The First ('Bad') Quarto William Shakespeare 1590
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Dont frett poeple, worrying about this wont help, besides, we will die one day anyway regardless.
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• In a previous letter to his son (Xovcmber 19), Wait Winthrop alludes to a visit he had had from Governor Saltonstall, and adds: * 'He thinks those sorry fellows frett and abuse jou. ...
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Hit Office hept at his Houje in l! ev, bury-frett,
A pocket almanack, for the year ... : calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay 1779
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