benty
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- Rhymes: -ɛnti
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benty (comparative more benty, superlative most benty)
- Abounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass.
- benty fields
- Resembling bent.
- 1841, Henry Cockburn, Journal:
- The gray benty colour of the always drenched pasture.
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- “benty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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benty (comparative mair benty, superlative maist benty)