Definition of "tret" [tret]

• 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. (noun)
• Simple past tense and past participle of treat. (verb)

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• "But you know, he had a young black slave boy, just my age, and bright as a brass button - and I tell you, the way he tret that child would ha 'broke your heart!"
• "'Cos Ah foun' me a man - a real man, a simple, no-'count ole farmer that tret me like a man, an 'talked with me like a man!"
• "Bees berri muhch cayrful, des kitteh es a tret to nashonal securty wif itz levl of kyootz."