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)

(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

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