to moisten or soak (flax, hemp, jute, etc) to promote bacterial action in order to facilitate separation of the fibres from the woody tissue by beating
Word origin
C15: of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch reeten, Swedish röta, German rösten; see rot1
Examples of 'retted' in a sentence
retted
Dewatered stems are transferred to a microwave chamber for further drying, thus retted stems are obtained for further processing.
G. S. Vijaya Raghavan, Denis Rho, Gopu R. Nair 2013, 'Application of Electro-Technologies in Processing of Flax Fiber', Fibershttp://www.mdpi.com/2079-6439/1/2/21. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The kenaf fibers were retted in a pressured reactor to remove the lignin and extractives in the fiber.
Changlei Xia, Shifeng Zhang, Han Ren, Sheldon Q. Shi, Hualiang Zhang, Liping Cai,Jianzhang Li 2015, 'Scalable Fabrication of Natural-Fiber Reinforced Composites with Electromagnetic InterferenceShielding Properties by Incorporating Powdered Activated Carbon', Materialshttp://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/9/1/10. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The autumn harvest yielded unretted, green material, while the frost-retted material harvested in spring may be classified as overretted.
H.-R. KYMÄLÄINEN, A. PASILA 2008, 'Equilibrium moisture content of flax/linseed and fibre hemp straw fractions', Agricultural and Food Sciencehttps://journal.fi/afs/article/view/5667. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Scutching was performed on un-retted stems and dew-retted stems, the un-retted scutched fiber bundles were then bio-degummed before hackling.
Salvatore Musio, Salvatore Musio, Salvatore Musio, Jörg Müssig, Stefano Amaducci 2018, 'Optimizing Hemp Fiber Production for High Performance Composite Applications', Frontiers in Plant Sciencehttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2018.01702/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Based on the raw kenaf bast fibers, the yields of retted fibers and bleached fibers were 44.6% and 41.4%.
Jinshu Shi, Sheldon Q. Shi, H. Michael Barnes, Charles U. Pittman, Jr. 2011, 'A CHEMICAL PROCESS FOR PREPARING CELLULOSIC FIBERS HIERARCHICALLY FROM KENAF BASTFIBERS', BioResourceswww.ncsu.edu/bioresources/BioRes_06/BioRes_06_1_0879_Shi_SBP_Chem_Proc_Prep_Cell_Fib_Hierarch_Kenaf_Bast_1419.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)