Hent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Hent is a verb meaning (obsolete) To take hold of, to grasp.
Meaning
(obsolete) To take hold of, to grasp.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) To take away, carry off, apprehend.
- (obsolete, transitive) To clear; to go beyond.
Example Sentences
And in the grekynge of the day Sir Gawayne hente his hors wondyrs for to seke.
1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale", The Canterbury Tales, republished 1897 [Clarendon Press], Walter W. Skeat (editor), Chaucer's Works: Volume 4, 2018 reprint, Outlook Verlag, page 533, This cursed man hath in his hond y-hent / This poyson in a box, and sith he ran / In-to the nexte strete, un-to a man, / And borwed [of] him large botels three;
Word Forms
- hents
- henting
- hented
- hente
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prehend, grasp, catch, attach, apprehend, haft.
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