hent
to seize.
Origin of hent
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How to use hent in a sentence
She was seated at a spinning-wheel, but seemed less occupied with the work, than hent on listening to some noise without.
St. Patrick's Eve | Charles James LeverWinslow set his teeth together and registered a mental vow to wring Rufus hent's sunburned neck at the first opportunity.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 | Lucy Maud MontgomeryTo hent is used by Shakespeare for, to seize, to catch, to lay hold on.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies | Samuel Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for hent (1 of 2)
/ (hɛnt) archaic /
(tr) to seize; grasp
anything that has been grasped, esp by the mind
Origin of hent
1British Dictionary definitions for hent (2 of 2)
/ (hɛnt) /
Southwest English dialect to empty: I'll hent the water out in the garden
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