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Overhent
Oˊver-hent′
,Verb.
T.
[See
Hent
.] To overtake.
[Obs.]
So forth he went and soon them
overhent
. Spenser.
Definition 2024
overhent
overhent
English
Verb
overhent (third-person singular simple present overhents, present participle overhenting, simple past and past participle overhent)
- (obsolete) To catch hold of; to overtake.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- With that he would haue fled into the wood; / But Timias him lightly ouerhent, / Right as he entring was into the flood [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v: