Definition of "hent" [hent]

• Obsolete To take hold of; seize. (verb-transitive)

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• "It will tale down everything you hent in North America."
• "So Khalifah hent the five dinars in hand and went away, rejoicing, and gazing and marvelling at the gold and saying, Glory be to God! There is not with the Caliph of"
• "I for a long time, but at last I awoke from my heedlessness and, returning to my senses, I found my wealth had become unwealth and my condition ill-conditioned and all I once hent had left my hand."