henting, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb hent; laying hold, seizing; grasp, apprehension.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 58/1 Cahchynge, or hentynge.., apprehencio. 1471 Ripley Comp. Alch. ix. iv. in Ashm. (1652) 174 These of our Secretts have som hentyng. 1508 Dunbar Flyting w. Kennedie 8 Hell sould nocht hyd thair harnis fra harmis hynting. |
2. Agric. (See quot.) [perh. a different word.]
| 1677 Plot 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. 1733 Tull 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. |