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plural retteries
A place or establishment where flax is retted. quotations examples
The most perfect adaptation of Schenck's system is at the rettery of M. Auguste Scrive, near Lille […] . Tanks of wood or stone are used, each to contain two and a half tons of flax straw
1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines