Obs. rare. [ad. OF. freter (Fr. fretter), f. OF. *frete (Fr. frette) ring, hoop.] trans. To bind (properly, with a hoop or ring). Also fig.

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1401.  Political Poems (Rolls), II. 41.

        Ffoxes frettid in fere
wasten the cornes,
and Cristes vine is vanishid
to the verray rote.

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c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. xxviii. (1869), 190. She was bounden with hoopes al aboute and faste fretted [fretee]. Ibid., xxix. 191. She is bounden and bounden ayen; Fretted [F. fretee] with obseruaunces.

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a. 1450.  Treat. Fysshynge w. Angle (1883), 8. Double the lyne & frete hyt fast yn þe top with a nose to fasten an your lyne.

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