overhent

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ hent.

Verb

overhent (third-person singular simple present overhents, present participle overhenting, simple past and past participle overhent)

1. (obsolete) To catch hold of; to overtake.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With that he would haue fled into the wood; / But Timias him lightly ouerhent, / Right as he entring was into the flood […]