FRET

I. verb (~ted; ~ting) see: eat Date: 12th century transitive verb 1. to eat or gnaw into ; corrode , rub , chafe , to make by wearing away a substance , to cause to suffer emotional strain ; vex , to pass (as time) in ~ting, agitate , ripple , intransitive verb 1. to eat into something, to affect something as if by gnawing or biting ; grate , 2. wear , corrode , chafe , fray 1, 3. to become vexed or worried, to become agitated, II. noun Date: 15th century 1. the action of wearing away ; erosion , a worn or eroded spot, an agitation of mind ; irritation , III. transitive verb (~ted; ~ting) Etymology: Middle English, back-formation from ~, ~ted adorned, interwoven, from Anglo-French ~té, past participle of ~ter to tie, probably from Vulgar Latin *firmitare, from Latin firmus firm Date: 14th century 1. to decorate with interlaced designs, to form a pattern upon, to enrich with embossed or pierced carved patterns, IV. noun Date: 14th century an ornamental network, an ornament or ornamental work often in relief consisting of small straight bars intersecting one another in right or oblique angles, V. noun Etymology: perhaps from Middle French ~e ferrule, from ~er Date: circa 1500 one of a series of ridges fixed across the fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument (as a guitar), ~less adjective ~ted adjective VI. transitive verb (~ted; ~ting) Date: 1602 to press (the strings of a stringed instrument) against the ~s