Pent
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PENT, pp. and sb. Yks. Nhp. Hnt. e.An. Ken. [pent.]
- pp. Confined in space, without sufficient room in which to do anything properly. Nhp.1 I'm quite pent up for want of room. Hnt. (T.P.F.) e.An.1 Pent for rume.
- Hard pressed for time, esp. hard pressed to finish a piece of work within a limited period. w.Yks. Shah mud hev hed more sense nor ax sitch a silly queshtan when ta sees hah pent I am for time, Saunterer's Satchel (1877) 7; Charley was always ‘pent’ when the end of the week came, and it was time to ‘liver in,’ Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 125; The risk of being ‘pent’ at ‘carrying-day,’ Yks. N. & Q. (1888) I. 78. Nhp.1 ‘I'm so pent, I shall not finish my work,’ is said by artisans at the end of the week. Obsol. Hnt. (T.P.F.) e.An.1 Pent for time. Nrf. We are not so pent for half-an-hour, Rye Hist. (1885) xv.
- sb. An enclosed piece of water. Ken. The harbour at Dover is so called; and the Baptist Chapel near it is called Pentside Chapel (W.F.S.).
- The time allotted for certain work. w.Yks. The pent will cease so-and-so. ‘I've got the pent off,’ i.e. succeeded by diligence in getting the piece off the loom at the due time (S.A.B.). Hence Pent-day, sb. making-up day in a weaving-shed. w.Yks. Bradford Obs. No. 9948, 7.
