释义 |
henting, vbl. n. [f. as prec. + -ing1.] 1. The action of the verb hent; laying hold, seizing; grasp, apprehension.
c1440Promp. Parv. 58/1 Cahchynge, or hentynge.., apprehencio. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. ix. iv. in Ashm. (1652) 174 These of our Secretts have som hentyng. 1508Dunbar Flyting w. Kennedie 8 Hell sould nocht hyd thair harnis fra harmis hynting. 2. Agric. (See quot.) [perh. a different word.]
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 246 They have also a way of sowing in the Chiltern Country, which is called sowing Hentings, which is done before the Plough, the Corn being cast in a straight line just where the plough must come, and is presently ploughed in. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. (ed. 2) xi. 116 They call the Top of a Ridge, a Veering; they call the two Furrows that are turn'd from each other at the Bottom, between two Ridges, a Henting, i.e. an Ending. |