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Noun

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arent (plural arents)

  1. A kind of anthropogenic soil, with deep mixing due to ploughing, digging, etc.
    • 2019, Luther Hammond, James E Box Jr, Rhizosphere Dynamics, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 196:
      [] to neutral than that of the arent soil (Edwards and Lofty 1977).

Verb

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arent

  1. Misspelling of aren't.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch arent (harvest). Related to obsolete arnen (to harvest), ongearend (unharvested). Cognate with German Ernte (harvest).

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Noun

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arent f (uncountable, diminutive arentje n)

  1. (obsolete) harvest
    Synonym: oogst

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Plural has not been attested. Not to be confused with arend (eagle).

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Latin

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Verb

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arent

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of arō

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Etymology

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From Middle English around.

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Preposition

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arent

  1. around
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 4-6:
      Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke var hye, arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.
      Your fame for such came before you even into this retired spot, to which neither the waters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23