aventre

English

Etymology

Old French venter (“to cast to the wind”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈvɛntɚ/

Verb

aventre (third-person singular simple present aventres, present participle aventring, simple past and past participle aventred)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     She mightily aventred towards one ,
     And downe him smot ere well aware he weare

Anagrams

• Neretva, Trevena, Veteran, nervate, vernate, veteran