Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A slit; specifically, a short slit or opening left in an article of dress, as in the sleeve of a shirt, at the top of the skirt in a dress, etc., as a means of putting it on; a placket or placket-hole.
- n. A crack; a flaw.
- n. A remnant, as of cotton; an odd piece; specifically, imperfectly printed or imperfectly dyed ends of cotton and other cloths, which are sold for patchwork and similar purposes.
- n. The binding of any part of the dress.
- To bind (cloth).
Examples
“Th 'e Kine But by Mr. juftice Page: This is a judgment, the other is no more againft Cot - than a charge •, it would not be neceffary in cares of removal, to give no - "■ « tice to the parifti to whom the pauper is fent, which is never done.”
“Però us deixo les fotos que he anat fent aquests dies.”
“És el que estem fent ara: ens ha fallat el primer ponent de la tarda, i ens hem empescat una petita ronda de presentacions de les entitats que hem organitzat tota aquesta gran festa.”
Liveblogging (6): Jornades àtic2a 2009, qüestions del directe | [bauen]
“He anat fent fotos de tot el procés, i que completaré fins el divendres, quan espero tenir-ho tot llest.”
Nou projecte: reclassificació de la Biblioteca de la UOC a Tortosa | [bauen]
“Wendee, Reading your note for the 13th, I had to snicker about the fence 'thingie'... once I heard a comedian wonder the same thing, since the word fence sounds plural, he came up with the singular 'fent'. lol Not sure what other word there is, slat, perhaps?”
“Hi Katy , ive really fallen off the no fabric wagon ... ive been to the fent shop today and then tonight ive won some more spotty fabric on ebay !”
“October 5, 2008 at 12:01 pm more den one fent is fents.”
Iz onna fence - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“A flash of that image will come into my head and I will be fent into fits of laughter.”
“When a pt came in allergic to morphine he gave remi-fent.”
“A fent thief, or perhaps a fent damaged in Hurricane Ike.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fent’.
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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Words of The Future - Part 1
Generated by peering at the shadow of my Activated Phonemes list; these words are not legit, but they are inevitable, unless English plunges into the sea.
For more, check out Words of ...yist, swize, blism, hoid, fent, twal, choid, drist, squing, snism, glable, smize and 117 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fent.
qroqqa God
Opens each fent, scent, memory, aftermath
In the sky and the sod.
—Lawrence Durrell, 'Carol on Corfu' Mar 17, 2009