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Definition of Bewent
1. bego [v] - See also: bego
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bewent
Literary usage of Bewent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"See bewent. Succour. (i) n. Shelter; a sheltered place. A tender plant is set'
in the succour of the wall'; and cattle on a cold wet day get 'in the succour ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1813)
"... close to the pond near the Castle-mit, where bewent to get water for his horses.
He confessed that he had been at Mm's. Stephens's shop on Saturday, ..."
3. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"See v. 557. either be considered as a diminutive from For timber, there our abbot
hath him sent : *-"eo pretty a puppet." [This may —I trow that he bewent ..."
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