bennet
Americannoun
noun
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
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These eggs, when taken and the yolk blown out, were strung on a bennet and so carried home.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
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
A bennet slipped up his knickerbockers and tickled his leg.
From Wood Magic A Fable by Richard Jefferies
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 Richard Jefferies
In it there shone many scores of white cheeses; around them bunches of sage, bennet, cardoon, and wild thyme hung drying, the entire herb apothecary shop of the Seneschal's daughter.
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
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