overhent
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overhent (third-person singular simple present overhents, present participle overhenting, simple past and past participle overhent)
- (obsolete) To catch hold of; to overtake.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- With that he would haue fled into the wood; / But Timias him lightly ouerhent, / Right as he entring was into the flood […]