benting time

noun

noun

Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle Archaic The season (midsummer, apparently), when pigeons were said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.

Bare benting times […] may come.1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

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