different between netting vs retting

English

Etymology 1

From net +? -ing.

Noun

netting (countable and uncountable, plural nettings)

1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
   • 1673, John Dryden, Amboyna

     Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare

   • January 1965, U.S. Army Air Defense Digest (U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas), page 44 (part of chapter 3, Army Air Defense Control Systems) (PDF: cover, contents, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3):

     The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. [...] Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.

Synonyms

• mesh

Etymology 2

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear.

Noun

netting (uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) urine

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 3

From net +? -ing.

Verb

netting

1. present participle of net

Anagrams

• tenting, tingent

English

Etymology

ret +? -ing

Noun

retting (countable and uncountable, plural rettings)

1. The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and similar processes.
2. A place where flax is retted; a rettery.

Synonyms

• (preparation of flax): rotting

Verb

retting

1. present participle of ret

References

1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines

Anagrams

• gittern, gritten

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From rette +? -ing.

Noun

retting f (definite singular rettinga, indefinite plural rettingar, definite plural rettingane)

1. correction
2. grading (of a test or similar)

References

• “retting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.