refret

== English == === Etymology 1 === From re- +‎ fret. ==== Verb ==== refret (third-person singular simple present refrets, present participle refretting, simple past and past participle refretted) (transitive) To replace the frets on (a musical instrument). === Etymology 2 === From Middle English refreit, from Anglo-Norman refreit (“response”), refraindre (“to sing a refrain”); also Old French refreit (“refrain”). The Oxford English Dictionary suggests influence from an unattested Late Latin form, refrangere; compare Latin refractus (past participle). See refrain (noun), refract. ==== Alternative forms ==== refrette, refreite, refrayt, refraid, refrayde, refreyd ==== Noun ==== refret (plural refrets) (obsolete) A refrain. === References === “refret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. “refraid, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2009. === Anagrams === ferret