toret

English

Noun

toret (plural torets)

  1. (obsolete) A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses.
  2. (obsolete) A ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for toret in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Gallo

Etymology

From a diminutive of Old French tor, taur, from Latin taurus, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

Noun

toret m (plural torets)

  1. bull
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