bennet

American  

[ben-it] / ˈbɛn ɪt /

noun

1. herb bennet.

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bennet British  

/ ˈbɛnɪt /

noun

1. short for herb bennet

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Etymology

Origin of bennet

1225–75; Middle English ( herbe ) beneit < Old French ( herbe ) beneite, translation of Latin ( herba ) benedicta blessed (herb) (> Old English benedicte, Old High German benedicta, Middle Dutch benedictus-kruid ). See Benedictus

Example Sentences

Everything was motionless under this yellow light, the grass-blades, the moss-blossoms, and the little blue butterflies, and a bumble-bee crawled into the bell of a bennet and hung there as if enchanted.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

Bevis, with his eyes shut, kept quite still under this luxurious tickling for some time, till Mark, getting tired, put the bennet delicately on his lip, when he started and rubbed his mouth.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

And you tried to string them on a bennet, but the bennet was too big, so you went indoors for some thread.

From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard

Then he drew forth a bennet from its sheath, and bit and sucked it till his teeth were green from the sap.

From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard

One creeper had climbed up a bennet, or seeding grass-stalk, binding the stalk and a blade of the grass together, and flowering there.

From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard