Meanings
nounbenting time (countable and uncountable, plural benting times)
plural benting times
- archaiccountableuncountableagricultureThe season (midsummer, apparently), when pigeons were said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
Bare benting times […] may come.
1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC
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