Obs. rare. Also 4 tarrit. [a. OF. *tarete, = taride (13th c. in Godef.), = med.L. tarīda, tarēta ‘navis onerariæ species, eadem quæ Tartana vocitata, ut quidam volunt’ (Du Cange). a. Arab. tarīdah ‘actuaria navis’; cf. med. Gr. ταρίδος = δρόμων (ibid.).] A kind of ship of burden or merchant vessel of the Middle Ages. Cf. TARTAN sb.2
a. 1352. Minot, Poems, iii. 80. Eight and forty galays and mo, And with them als war tarettes two.
[1354. in Rymer, Fœdera (1825), III. I. 274/1. Sciatis quod suscepimus in prolectionem … tres taritas, diversis bonis & mercimoniis carcatas, quæ juxta insulas nostras … jacent ancoratæ.] Ibid. (1362), (1830), III. II. 641. Quædam magna navis, vocata Tarrit, et tres aliæ grossæ naves.
