English
Verb
hend (third-person singular simple present hends, present participle hending, simple past and past participle hended)
- (obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
- 1885, Presently the cloud opened and behold, within it was that Jinni hending in hand a drawn sword, while his eyes were shooting fire sparks of rage. — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1