retiary
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 7
/ˈɹiːʃɪəɹi/
(UK)
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/ˈɹiːʃɪəɹi/ (UK) · /ˈɹiːʃəɹi/ (UK) · /ˈɹiʃiˌɛɹi/ · /ˈɹiʃiəɹi/
Definition of retiary
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)net-like
“And, beside this kind of work in retiary and hanging textures”
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adj
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(not-comparable)net-like
“And, beside this kind of work in retiary and hanging textures”
- (archaic, not-comparable)Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; said of certain spiders.
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(not-comparable)Armed with a net; hence, skilful at entangling.
“c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor scholastic retiary versatility of logic”
noun
- Any spider that spins webs to catch its prey.
- (historical)A retiarius: a gladiator who fought with a net.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Compare Latin retiarius.
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