Obs. [f. FRET v.4 + -ING2.]
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 179. If þou wolt kepe þe eendis of þe heeris fro fretynge, kutte hem alle euene.
1552. Huloet, s.v. Bolster, Bolsters whyche bearers of burdens, as porters, etc. do weare for freatynge, thomices.
1578. J. Banister, The Historie of Man, I. 13 [A]. Gristle, which serueth not onely after the maner of a Ligament, to conteine and hold the same in his propper Cell, but also maketh the motion of this manner knittyng more easie, and swift, without metyng and frettyng of the Bones.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy. (1810), III. 128. They kindle their fire with continuall rubbing and fretting one sticke against another as we doe with flints.
1657. R. Austen, A Treatise of Fruit-Trees, I. 65. Both Trees and fruits have many great advantages, if planted a good distance one from another. Such are freed from frettings and gallings, that happens to Trees that thrust, and croud one another.
