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henting

henting is the present participle and gerund of hent.

Meaning of hent

Verb

hent (third-person singular simple present hents, present participle henting, simple past and past participle hented)

  1. (obsolete) To take hold of, to grasp.
    • This cursed man hath in his hond y-hent / This poyson in a box, and sith he ran / In-to the nexte strete, un-to a man, / And borwed [of] him large botels three;1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale", The Canterbury Tales, republished 1897 [Clarendon Press], Walter W. Skeat (editor), Chaucer's Works: Volume 4, 2018 reprint, Outlook Verlag, page 533
  2. (obsolete) To take away, carry off, apprehend.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To clear; to go beyond.

Verb

henting

  1. (Cornwall) Raining hard.

Questions about henting

What does henting mean?
Henting means raining hard.
What is henting the present participle and gerund of?
Henting is the present participle and gerund of hent.
What part of speech is henting?
Henting is a verb.

Words near henting in the dictionary

  1. hentetracontane
  2. Henthorn
  3. Henthorne
  4. Henthornes
  5. Henthorns
  6. henting
  7. Hentland
  8. Hentoff
  9. Hentoffs
  10. Henton
  11. Hentons

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