"refret" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "re- + fret",
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      "form": "refrets",
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      "form": "refretting",
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      "form": "refretted",
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        {
          "text": "Can you refret my guitar?"
        }
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        "To replace the frets on (a musical instrument)."
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        "(transitive) To replace the frets on (a musical instrument)."
      ],
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  "word": "refret"
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      "name": "der"
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    {
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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          "text": "Our old English term refrette, ‘the foote of the dittie, a verse often interlaced, or the burden of a song,’ was probably from refrain; or from refresteler, to pipe over again. […] ‘Refrain, the refret, burthen, or downe of a ballad.’ All this discussion is rendered necessary, because Steevens unfortunately forgot to note from whence he made the following extract,",
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        "A refrain."
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        "(obsolete) A refrain."
      ],
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          "word": "refrette"
        },
        {
          "word": "refreite"
        },
        {
          "word": "refrayt"
        },
        {
          "word": "refraid"
        },
        {
          "word": "refrayde"
        },
        {
          "word": "refreyd"
        }
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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  "word": "refret"
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    {
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      "form": "refretted",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Can you refret my guitar?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To replace the frets on (a musical instrument)."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To replace the frets on (a musical instrument)."
      ],
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        "A refrain."
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        "(obsolete) A refrain."
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    {
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      "word": "refraid"
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    {
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