Benty

a. [f. BENT sb.¹ + -Y¹.]

  1.  a. Of the nature of a rush or grass-stalk. b. Of or pertaining to bent or bent-grass.

1597.  Gerard, Herball, I. iii. § 1. 4. Slender bentie stalks.

1807.  Headrick, Arran, 124. The benty grasses, which grow on the sea beach.

1841.  Ld. Cockburn, Jrnl., I. 305. The gray benty colour of the always drenched pasture.

  2.  Covered with bent or bent-grasses.

a. 1700.  in Maidment’s Scot. Ball. (1868), II. 197. As he came down by Merriemass, And in by the benty line.

1834.  Brit. Husb., xii. 292. Coarse benty sward.

1876.  Blackie, Songs of Relig., 137. Above the benty golfing ground.