Ret (Verb)
Meaning
Place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue.
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The process of retting involves submerging the flax plants in water to allow the enzymes to break down the pectins holding the fibers together.
- Workers were retting the hemp stalks in the nearby pond to make the extraction of the fibers an easier task.
- The jute fibers would need to be retted before they could be spun into yarn.
- In this stage of the production, the jute stems were retted in water for a couple of weeks to weaken the cellular bonds.
- The farmer carefully arranged the bundles of flax in the water to ret them evenly.