aventre
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Etymology edit
Old French venter (“to cast to the wind”)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aventre (third-person singular simple present aventres, present participle aventring, simple past and past participle aventred)
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- She mightily aventred towards one ,
And downe him smot ere well aware he weare