tret

When it comes to a question of tare and tret, false sentiment must be excluded.

She saved me—little knock-out—an' look 'ow I went an' tret 'er for it!

Multiplying the men by the seconds (5,000 x 30) you get approximately the amount of the wind, in wear and tare and tret.

"He tret the ainst, an' I tret ten times or mair," Geordie was vehemently affirming to a sympathetic street.

No, she an' me's from th' old North—old Car'tret, nigh on ter Newbern; an' we doant take nat'rally to these fire-eaters.