(Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
(heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
(mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
(music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
(obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
(rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
A channel, a strait; a fretum.
Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
verb
(intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
(intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
(intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
(intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
(transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
(transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
(transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
(transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
(transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
(transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
(transitive, intransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
(transitive, intransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
(transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
To press down the string behind a fret.
reft
reft
noun
A chink; a rift.
tref
tref
adj
Alternative form of treyf (“not kosher”)
noun
(historical) A hamlet in Britain in pre-Saxon times.
