Dictionary Entry

pent

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/pɛnt/Used In Literature ↓

To enclose in a pen.

Origin

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Common Phrases

. pentroof pentwithin pentfarm penthouse pentroofs pentpent long

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Poetry examples for “pent”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The song is but a door which, opening wide,
Lets forth the pent-up melody inside,
Your spirit's harmony, which clear and strong

To them a city is a prison house
Where pent up human forces labour and strive,
Where beauty dwells not, driven forth by man;

That germs of things above their kind
May live, pent up and close confined
In humbler forms, it may be true;

The painful hind by thee to field is sent;
Slow oxen early in the yoke are pent.
Thou coz'nest boys of sleep, and dost betray them

And that unnatural queen, false Isabel,
That thus hath pent and mewd me in a prison ;
For such outrageous passions cloy my soul,

It may be a dæmon of pent and high emprise,
That looks on my soul till my soul hides and cries,

That I was happy oft and oft before,
Awhile forgetting how I am fast pent,
How dreary-swift, with naught to travel to,

To sing for tliee ; low-creeping strawberries
Their summer coolness ; pent-up butterflies
Their freckled wings ; yea, the fresh-budding year

To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair

Pent, 499.