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
Example Sentences
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A bennet slipped up his knickerbockers and tickled his leg.
From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard
He can judge a yard on the grass, because there is something to fix the eye on—the tall bennet or the buttercup yonder; but the water affords no data.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 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
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
The verb 'to uck' was capable indeed of infinite conjugation, and young Aaron, breaking off a bennet, once asked me to kindly 'uck' a grain of hay-dust out of his eye with it.
From Round About a Great Estate by Jefferies, Richard
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