different between tret vs cloff

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??t/

Etymology 1

Old French traire, from Latin trah?re.

Noun

tret (plural trets)

1. (obsolete) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted.

Etymology 2

From Middle English, analogous with Germanic verbs such as meet, met.

Verb

tret

1. (Yorkshire, Tyneside, Lancashire, colloquial) simple past tense and past participle of treat

Anagrams

• tert-, tetr-

Albanian

Etymology

Variant of tres.

Verb

tret (first-person singular past tense treta, participle tretur)

1. I dissolve, digest, melt down, lose weight
2. I throw away

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin tractus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?et/
• Rhymes: -et

Noun

tret m (plural trets)

1. trait

   Synonyms: qualitat, característica, propietat, atribut

2. shot (with a gun)

Etymology 2

From treure

Preposition

tret

1. except

   Synonyms: tret de, excepte, exceptuant

Verb

tret

1. past participle of treure
2. past participle of traure

Further reading

• “tret” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tret” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tret” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tret” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

English

Alternative forms

• clough

Noun

cloff (plural cloffs)

1. (historical) An allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

References

• cloff in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.