benting time
English
Noun
benting time (countable and uncountable, plural benting times)
- (archaic, agriculture) The season (midsummer, apparently), when pigeons were said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- Bare benting times […] may come.
References
- “benting time”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.