Lexicographical Neighbors of Glented
Literary usage of Glented
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"See the first Gleg. Glent, a glimpse. ' I gat a glent on 't.' A flash of light.
A first thought. glented, pt. t. glanced. ..."
2. Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticism on by Nathan Drake (1817)
"... but ane that rade foremost, an' that ane was a gude deal larger than the lave,
wi' bonnie lang hair bun' about wi' a strap, whilk glented lyke stars. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"... to glent or glint, to glance or gleam, to pass suddenly as a gleam of light,
to glide, to peep, to squint.—Jam. ' The stroke glented down to his belly. ..."
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