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Webster 1913 Edition
Hent
Hent
(hĕnt)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Hente
; p. p.
Hent
.] [OE.
hente
, henten
, fr. AS. hentan
, gehentan
, to pursue, take, seize; cf. Icel. henda
, Goth. hinpan
(in compos.), and E. hunt
.] To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
Spenser.
This cursed Jew him
hente
and held him fast. Chaucer.
But all that he might of his friendes
On bookes and on learning he it spente.
hente
On bookes and on learning he it spente.
Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hent
HENT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To crowd; to press on.Definition 2024
hent
hent
English
Alternative forms
- hente (13th-16th centuries)
Verb
hent (third-person singular simple present hents, present participle henting, simple past and past participle hent)
- (obsolete) To take hold of, to grasp.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.V, Ch.IX:
- And in the grekynge of the day Sir Gawayne hente his hors wondyrs for to seke.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.V, Ch.IX:
- (obsolete) To take away, carry off, apprehend.
Anagrams
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *hɨnt, from Proto-Celtic *sentus, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to head for, go”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛ̃nd/
Noun
hent m (plural hentoù)