Definition of "blet" in English

verb

1. To undergo or cause to undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.

   • c. 1835, B. Maund, The Botanic Garden, Or, Magazine of Flowering Plants, Volume 6, Simpkin & Marshall, page 115, Bletting is in particular a special alteration; it appears that the more austere a fruit is before this is brought on, the more it is capable of bletting regularly.

noun

1. A soft spot on fruit caused by bletting.