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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--ret This week's theme: short words. ret (ret) verb tr. To soak or expose to moisture (flax, hemp, etc.) to remove fiber from softened wood. [From Middle English reten, perhaps from Middle Dutch.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Deep in the city's culture memory is the experience of the linen trade. As Robert Johnstone writes, 'The fibres came to the hacklers retted, dried and scutched, like long, flaxen hair which would comb through metal brushes.'" Tom Paulin; The Vernacular City; The Guardian (London, UK); Feb 23, 2002. X-Bonus Once you label me you negate me. -Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855)

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