bennet
Americannoun
noun
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
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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
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
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
A bennet slipped up his knickerbockers and tickled his leg.
From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard
One creeper had climbed up a bennet, or seeding grass-stalk, binding the stalk and a blade of the grass together, and flowering there.
From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard
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