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† taˈrette Obs. rare.
Also 4 ˈtarrit.
[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 n.2
a1352Minot Poems iii. 80 Eight and forty galays and mo, And with them als war tarettes two. [1354in Rymer Fœdera (1825) III. i. 274/1 Sciatis quod suscepimus in protectionem..tres taritas, diversis bonis & mercimoniis carcatas, quæ juxta insulas nostras..jacent ancoratæ.] 1362Ibid. (1830) III. ii. 641 Quædam magna navis, vocata Tarrit, et tres aliæ grossæ naves. |