单词 | water retting |
释义 | water rettingn. The process of retting flax or hemp by steeping in water. Cf. ret v.2 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with other materials > [noun] > processes in working with flax or hemp retting1611 rottinga1682 water retting1710 water rotting1714 ret1849 1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus Sept. 14 There is a Water-retting and a Dew-retting, which last is done on a good Rawing, or after Math of a Meadow Water. 1788 Ann. Agric. 10 379 Water-retting is performed by binding the hemp in small bunches, with the under-hemp..placed in rows crossing each other in the water, and immersed. 1821 Amer. Farmer 7 Dec. 290/2 The inducements to water-wretting are strong, the hemp is said to be better, and of course commands a better price. 1842 W. B. Carpenter Pop. Cycl. Nat. Sci.: Botany 363 This process, which is called water-retting, renders the water offensive, and is said to be unhealthy to the neighbourhood. 1919 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 5 July 7/2 The method of water-retting is to immerse the straw in canals of slow-running streams and allow fermentation to take its natural course. 1934 B. B. Robinson Flax-fiber Production 22 Water-retting, or tank-retting, seems to give the best results under American conditions. 2008 K. Fletcher Sustainable Fashion & Textiles i. i. 16 The nutrients from the decaying stalks mean that water retting is highly polluting to water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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