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Hent Hand Lady Nights Verb Seize Ancient Word

The verb "hent" is an old word meaning to seize or take hold of.

Verbet "hent" är ett gammalt ord som betyder att gripa eller ta tag i.

Back hent \hent\
Front
verb
To seize.

[Hent, an ancient word, entered Old English before the year 1000 as a relative of the verbs hentan "to pursue" and huntian "to hunt."]

"Then he hent in hand two stones and went round about the city…" - Lady Isabel Burton, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights

"So they hent him by the hand and thrust him out; and I took the lute and sang over again the songs of my own composing which the damsel had sung." - Emile Van Vliet, The Thousand Nights and A Night

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