Definition of "hent" in English

verb

1. (obsolete) To take hold of, to grasp.

   • 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale", The Canterbury Tales, republished 1897 [Clarendon Press], Walter W. Skeat (editor), Chaucer's Works: Volume 4, 2018 reprint, Outlook Verlag, page 533, This cursed man hath in his hond y-hent / This poyson in a box, and sith he ran / In-to the nexte strete, un-to a man, / And borwed [of] him large botels three;

2. (obsolete) To take away, carry off, apprehend.

3. (obsolete, transitive) To clear; to go beyond.