frett
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
See frit.
Noun edit
frett (usually uncountable, plural fretts)
Etymology 2 edit
See fret.
Noun edit
frett (plural fretts)
- (mining) The worn side of the bank of a river.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “frett”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
frett
- Alternative form of fret (“eating away”)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
frett
- Alternative form of fret (“decoration”)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
frett
- Alternative form of fret (“fee”)