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hending

hending is the present participle and gerund of hend.

Meaning of hend

Verb

hend (third-person singular simple present hends, present participle hending, simple past and past participle hended)

  1. (obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
    • She flew at him like to an hellish feend,
      And on his shield tooke hold with all her might,
      As if that it she would in peeces rend,
      Or reave out of the hand that did it hend1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about hending

What is hending the present participle and gerund of?
Hending is the present participle and gerund of hend.

Words near hending in the dictionary

  1. hendiadyses
  2. hendiadytic
  3. hendiatris
  4. hendibeh
  5. hendigo
  6. hending
  7. Hendler
  8. Hendlers
  9. Hendley
  10. Hendleys
  11. Hendo's

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