benting time
English
Noun
benting time (countable and uncountable, plural benting times)
- (archaic) The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
- Dryden
- Bare benting times […] may come.
- Dryden
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for benting time in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)