Obs. rare. [f. VENT sb.1]

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  1.  trans. To trim the openings or slits of (a garment). Cf. FENT v.

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1547.  in Feuillerat, Revels Edw. VI. (1914), 76. Longe gownes or Cassockes for women of red Sarcenet … puffyd with whyte sarcenet & ventyd with the same.

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1606.  in Lismore Papers, Ser. II. (1887), I. 111. Fustain to ventt it [sc. a gown] doune before.

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  2.  To crenellate (a wall).

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1531.  in Bailey, Hist. Tower (1821), p. xi. The walls … rounde aboute to be copyde, ventyde, lowpyde, and crestyde. Ibid. The walls of the same with one turret to be ventyde.

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