The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affret
Affret \Af*fret"\, n. [Cf. It. affrettare to hasten, fretta
haste.]
A furious onset or attack. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
affret
n. (context obsolete English) An attack.
Usage examples of "affret".
Their steel-hed speares they strongly coucht, and metTogether with impetuous rage and forse,That with the terrour of their fierce affret,They rudely droue to ground both man and horse,That each awhile lay like a sencelesse corse.
Their firie Steedes with so vntamed forseDid beare them both to fell auenges end,That both their speares with pitilesse remorse,Through shield and mayle, and haberieon did wend,And in their flesh a griesly passage rend,That with the furie of their owne affret,Each other horse and man to ground did send.