bennet

American  

[ben-it] / ˈbɛn ɪt /

noun

1. herb bennet.

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bennet British  

/ ˈbɛnɪt /

noun

1. short for herb bennet

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Etymology

Origin of bennet

1225–75; Middle English ( herbe ) beneit < Old French ( herbe ) beneite, translation of Latin ( herba ) benedicta blessed (herb) (> Old English benedicte, Old High German benedicta, Middle Dutch benedictus-kruid ). See Benedictus

Example Sentences

The verb 'to uck' was capable indeed of infinite conjugation, and young Aaron, breaking off a bennet, once asked me to kindly 'uck' a grain of hay-dust out of his eye with it.

From Round About a Great Estate by Jefferies, Richard

Everything was motionless under this yellow light, the grass-blades, the moss-blossoms, and the little blue butterflies, and a bumble-bee crawled into the bell of a bennet and hung there as if enchanted.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

He can judge a yard on the grass, because there is something to fix the eye on—the tall bennet or the buttercup yonder; but the water affords no data.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard

He picked a bennet from the grass and bit it, but it was sapless, dried by the summer heat.

From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard

And you tried to string them on a bennet, but the bennet was too big, so you went indoors for some thread.

From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard