Meaning of hent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To take hold of, to grasp.
   obsolete
2. To take away, carry off, apprehend.
   obsolete
3. To clear; to go beyond.
   obsolete, transitive

Examples

“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, 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;”

“And in the grekynge of the day Sir Gawayne hente his hors wondyrs for to seke.”

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