overhent

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verb

To catch hold of; to overtake.

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Meanings

verboverhent (third-person singular simple present overhents, present participle overhenting, simple past and past participle overhent)

present singular third person overhents · participle present overhenting

  1. obsoleteTo catch hold of; to overtake.

    With that he would haue fled into the wood; / But Timias him lightly ouerhent, / Right as he entring was into the flood […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From over- + hent.

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