benty
English
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- Rhymes: -ɛnti
Adjective
    
benty (comparative more benty, superlative most benty)
- Abounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass.
- benty fields
 
- Resembling bent.
- 1841, Henry Cockburn, Journal:- The gray benty colour of the always drenched pasture.
 
 
References
    
- “benty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Scots
    
    Alternative forms
    
- bentie, bentey
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛnti/
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